Party kicks out ex-work safety chief
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THE former head of China’s work safety authority has been expelled from the Communist Party for corruption, its anti-graft watchdog said yesterday. The move follows his sacking after August’s explosions in Tianjin that killed at least 165 people.
Yang Dongliang, 61, was removed as director of the State Administration for Work Safety two weeks after the blasts at a chemicals storage facility that rocked the northern port. Before taking up the post, Yang had worked in Tianjin for 18 years and became one of its vice mayors.
He has been stripped of his Party membership and transferred to judicial authorities — normally a precursor to prosecution and trial, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said.
As a senior cadre of the Party, Yang had “lost his ideals and conviction,” its statement said.
It said an investigation had found that Yang had violated regulations to land jobs and promotions for his son, took advantage of his power to embezzle public property and assets, and sought business gains for companies in exchange for bribes.
His actions were “vicious in nature and the circumstances were particularly serious,” it added.
The commission also announced the expulsion of Zhou Benshun, previously the most senior official in Hebei Province, which neighbors Beijing, and a close ally of jailed ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang.
Accusations against Zhou Benshun include illegally keeping confidential documents and leaking Party and state secrets, making comments that ran contrary to top party leaders’ stances on “major issues,” and taking bribes.
He also flouted frugality rules introduced at the end of 2012 by engaging in lavish receptions, holding banquets financed by public funds, frequenting private clubs and “living an extravagant and wasteful life,” it added.
Zhou Benshun accepted bribes and took advantage of his post to seek profits for others, including helping his son’s business interests, it said. “His family values are skewed and he indulged his wife and children.”
Zhou became Party chief in Hebei in 2013 after five years in the Central Politics and Law Commission as its secretary general, under Zhou Yongkang.
His case has also been handed over to judicial authorities.
Six other acolytes of Zhou Yongkang were in court this week, with four sentenced to prison terms between 12 and 20 years and verdicts pending on the other two.
Zhou Yongkang was jailed for life in June.
Also expelled from the Party is Pan Yiyang, former vice chairman of the government of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He was removed from office for “serious disciplinary offences” by engaging in “non-organizational political activities” and misleading authorities.
He is also accused of bribing others in order to seek promotions, taking advantage of his position to seek profits for others, and accepting bribes, it said.
His case has also been transferred to prosecutors.
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