People’s Daily site bosses probed
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TWO executives of the company that runs the website of the Chinese Communist Party’s top newspaper are being investigated for corruption, the state prosecutor said yesterday.
Liao Hong, chairman of People.cn Co Ltd, the online platform of the People’s Daily, has been placed under “compulsory measures,” a term that typically denotes detention, for suspected crimes relating to bribery, the top prosecutor said.
The company’s vice chairman, Chen Zhixia, was also being investigated, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said.
“The investigation is ongoing,” the prosecutor said, without giving further details.
The People’s Daily newspaper said it demanded the company fully cooperate with the investigation and learn lessons from the case, adding that the website was operating as normal.
“People.cn will as always do its reporting work well, upholding the guiding principles of unity, stability, encouragement and positive propaganda,” the newspaper said.
Liao, who has been the chief editor of the website since 2010, has been a long-time journalist and executive at the website.
In 2009, he won a top government journalism prize, according to his biography on People.cn.
China’s graft busters have gone after other executives and journalists within the state-run media, part of a broad crackdown on corruption that has swept official ranks since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012.
Guo Zhenxi, the advertising director at China Central Television and director-general of its finance and economics channel was detained in June 2014 for suspected bribery.
Several of the network’s other senior producers, executives and journalists have faced investigation recently.
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