A state-run Chinese newspaper has for the first time identified former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang as the father of a businessman who is being investigated for graft and implied that Zhou himself is also under investigation for corruption.
Sources have said that Zhou, 71, is the most senior Chinese politician to be ensnared in a graft scandal since the Communist Party took power in 1949, but the case is highly sensitive and has been shrouded in secrecy with hardly a shred of information confirmed by authorities or reported in state media.
Late on Monday, the Global Times newspaper said on the website of it English-language edition that businessman Zhou Bin was “Zhou’s eldest son”, a comment it repeated on Tuesday in its English-language print edition.
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John Ruwitch, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1i3VQ1y
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