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Intelligence chief suspected of graft
情报官涉嫌贪污

Source: Shanghai Daily | January 17, 2015, Saturday | Print Edition

ONE of China’s top intelligence chiefs is being investigated for corruption, the Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said yesterday.

Ma Jian, a vice minister at the Ministry of State Security, is the most senior security official to be investigated since former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal last July.

Several of Ma’s men are also being questioned to assist with the investigation.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Ma was under investigation on “suspicion of serious violations of discipline and the law,” words usually indicating corruption.

It is not clear what triggered the decision to launch an investigation into Ma, who is said to have headed China’s counter-espionage programs.

Ma was taken away from his office last week.

Ma was director of the ministry’s “No. 8 bureau,” which is responsible for counter-espionage activities. He has since been replaced by Qiu Jin, a vice minister of state security.

Ma worked at the agency for more than 30 years, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post said, and was promoted to a deputy minister of counter-intelligence operations in 2006.

The paper said Ma was closely tied to Ling Jihua, who was vice chairman of China’s top political advisory body before he was put under investigation on graft charges last month.

The Post also said Ma’s case was tied to a corruption scandal at Founder Group, a technology firm owned by Peking University. Ma is believed to be close to the firm’s chief executive Li You, it said.

In a separate announcement yesterday, the commission said that Wei Junxing, vice secretary of the northeastern province of Liaoning, was also under investigation for seriously violating the law. It did not elaborate.

President Xi Jinping has vowed to target high-ranking “tigers” as well as lowly “flies” in his anti-corruption drive and has pledged to deepen the most sweeping campaign against graft in years.

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