CHINA’S EX-SECURITY CHIEF ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION
China’s former
security chief Zhou Yongkang has been charged with bribery, abuse of power and
disclosing state secrets, making him the most senior official being prosecuted
in decades.
Zhou is the most prominent victim of President Xi
Jinping’s much-publicised anti-corruption drive, which has targeted high-level
“tigers” as well as low-level “flies”.
“The defendant Zhou Yongkang… took advantage of his
posts to seek gains for others and illegally took huge property and assets from
others, abused his power, causing huge losses to public property and the
interests of the State and the people,” said the indictment, posted online by
prosecutors.
“The social impact is vile and the circumstances
were extraordinarily severe,” it said, adding that he also “intentionally leaked
state secrets”.
The document was filed with a court in the northern
port of Tianjin, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate added.
He had a background in the oil industry and
accumulated vast power as he rose through the ranks to become a member of the
Communist Party’s elite Politburo Standing Committee, the most powerful body in
China.
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