Top political adviser sacked
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SENIOR political adviser Su Rong was yesterday removed from his post as vice chairman of the country’s top political advisory body for a suspected breach of discipline.
The 66-year-old is the highest-ranking official to be investigated since the start of a nationwide anti-graft crusade launched after the Party’s national congress in late 2012.
Authorities did not provide further details. However, it is understood the investigation could be related to a number of projects in east China’s Jiangxi Province from 2007 to March 2013 when he was the provincial Party chief.
Su’s wife, Yu Liefeng, was named during a court hearing earlier this week when Jiangxi entrepreneur Gui Song stood trial on bribery charges.
The court heard that Yu brokered a deal in 2009 in which a businessman acquired land owned by Gui at well below market value after allegedly paying her tens of millions of yuan, according to the Oriental Morning Post.
But when Gui complained to the authorities, Su had him investigated, the paper reported.
Su was also reported to be responsible for a 22.5 billion yuan tree-planting project in the province, a project referred to as “cutting off big trees to make way for saplings.”
Su is the latest in a number of senior officials with Jiangxi links to be investigated since the arrival in the province of investigators from the Party’s disciplinary watchdog last year.
Chen Anzhong, former deputy director of the provincial legislature, was investigated in December and expelled from the Party and public office last month.
Yao Mugen, vice governor of Jiangxi, was investigated in March this year and removed from his post in April.
Zhao Zhiyong, a Jiangxi standing committee member, was also sacked recently.
In April 2012, Song Chenguang, former vice chairman of the province’s political advisory body, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery.
Also yesterday the top advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, endorsed decisions to expel Song Lin, former China Resources chairman, and Ye Wanyong, former political commissar of the People’s Liberation Army’s Sichuan Military Area Command, from the national committee.
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