Chinese authorities have arrested a former top official in a corruption investigation after expelling him from the ruling Communist Party, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
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The statement added: “Ling’s acts completely deviated from the CPC’s nature and objective, seriously violated the Party’s discipline and severely undermined the Party’s image”. He were demoted in September 2012 typically from ministerial-level task days after his daughter died within a disastrous mental crash relating to an indulgence physical activities automobile.
A separate statement issued late on Monday by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) said prosecutors had opened an investigation into Ling’s suspected bribery case and chose to arrest him in accordance with the law.
Ling was former vice chair of the Chinese People’s Consultative Conference National Committee. He took advantage of his posts to seek profit for others and accepted huge bribes personally and through his family, according to a statement released after the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
Speculation on Ling’s prosecution has intensified since a flurry of domestic media of reports in June on the conduct of Ling and members of his family. He should bear major responsibility for his family members’ acts of seeking profit using the influence of his position.
He also allegedly exchanged his power for sex and had affairs with several women.
A brother-in-law of Ling’s who served as deputy mayor in Shanxi province’s Yuncheng city has been detained for a second time in connection to a corruption investigation, the Beijing News reported July 15.
A government spokesman denied in March that Mr. Hu was being implicated in the Ling probe and sources have told Reuters that Mr. Hu approved of the investigation. It is not clear if he has a lawyer.
Mr Xi’s pervasive anti-corruption campaign, which began soon after he took power in November 2012, has proven popular with many ordinary Chinese – though many still remain sceptical over whether the campaign is primarily a move to purge political rivals.
Ling is the second top official of the CPC to go on trial after former security Chief Zhou Yongkang who was sentenced to life last month for graft and abuse of power. “We have not heard of any real personal grudge that Xi Jinping would have against Ling Jihua”, Tsang said.
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The violations included accepting bribes, wrongly obtaining state secrets and committing adultery with multiple women.
