China is probing a one-time aide to Zhou Yongkang for discipline violations, the latest official to be ensnared by corruption investigations surrounding the retired Politburo Standing Committee member.
Ji Wenlin, vice governor of southern China’s Hainan province, is under investigation for alleged “serious violations of discipline and laws,” the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said yesterday on its website. There were no other details in the statement, released two weeks before the annual meeting of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, begins on March 5.
The announcement means at least five people with ties to Zhou are now under party investigation over graft allegations, and follows reports that the country’s former security chief is himself being targeted. The probe of Zhou is in its “final stage,” the South China Morning Post reported Jan. 29, citing two unidentified people who received the information.
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Allen Wan and Daryl Loo, Bloomberg News via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1dNuiOv
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