Senior official under anti-graft investigation
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SU Rong, vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, has been placed under investigation.
This probe is focusing on suspected disciplinary violations, the Party’s internal discipline watchdog said in a statement.
Su is the highest-ranking official in China ever to be investigated.
China is in the middle of a nationwide anti-corruption campaign which has toppled a swathe of government officials.
The campaign targeting both “tigers” and “flies” — a metaphor referring to senior and low-ranking corrupt officials — is lasting longer and striking harder than many had anticipated.
Speaking at a meeting on disciplinary inspection work in March, national anti-corruption chief Wang Qishan called for innovation in inspections to bring a “Sword of Damocles” to hang above those in power as a deterrent.
More than two dozen government officials at or above provincial and ministerial-levels have been put under investigation — of whom close to half were probed in the first half of this year.
Born in 1948, Su was elected a vice chairperson of the 12th National Committee of the CPPCC in March 2013, along with 22 others.
Just two weeks ago, he attended a top-level CPPCC conference in Beijing.
He is also the latest apprehended senior official with links to Jiangxi, where a major shift in the political landscape has taken place ever since an inspection team from the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was dispatched to the eastern province in May 2013.
Chen Anzhong, former deputy director of the standing committee of Jiangxi provincial people’s congress, was investigated in December 2013 and expelled from the CPC and public office last month.
Yao Mugen, vice governor of Jiangxi, was probed for suspected disciplinary and legal violations in March this year and was removed from his post the following month.
Zhao Zhiyong, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jiangxi Provincial Committee, was sacked by the CPC Central Committee recently, according to a statement that was issued by the CPC Central Committee’s Organization Department.
And before that, Song Chenguang, former vice chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the CPPCC, was sentenced to death with two years of probation for bribery in April 2012.
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