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Probe into 3 former top provincial officials
省部级“老虎”朱明国王敏陈川平同日被双开

By Li Qian | February 18, 2015, Wednesday | Print Edition

THREE former top provincial officials are being investigated for alleged bribe-taking and have been placed under “coercive measures,” the Supreme People’s Procuratorate announced yesterday.

Among them is Zhu Mingguo, former top political advisor in southern China’s Guangdong Province.

Also under investigation are Chen Chuanping, former Standing Committee member of the Party’s Provincial Committee in northern China’s Shanxi Province, and Wang Min, who served on the same committee in eastern China’s Shandong Province.

In China, coercive measures include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest. Prosecutors didn’t identify which measures are being employed.

The Party’s graft-fighting body also said the three officials have been expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office.

They violated Party codes of conduct and took advantage of their posts to seek profits for others in selection of officials. In return, they accepted huge bribes, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Zhu also violated family planning policy, while Chen and Wang sought profits for family members or friends’ businesses, said the commission.

Chen caused great losses to state assets by abusing his power, it added.

Zhu and Wang didn’t even curtail their activities after the 18th Party Congress in 2012, when President Xi Jinping announced a major crackdown on graft, said the commission.

Zhu, former chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, had two villas on Hainan island, reported the Legal Evening News.

It was claimed that 10 truckloads of high-quality stone were brought from Chongqing in western China to Hainan for the construction.

And a relative told the newspaper that the furniture was made of wood costing 9,000 yuan (US$1,440) per kilogram.

When police searched Zhu’s villas last November they are reported to have seized large quantities of gold and cash.

Chen and Wang, were reported to have given bribes to top officials to build up relationships.

Chen was placed under investigation last August and Wang last December.

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