What’s new: Su Zengtian, a former vice chairman of Fujian’s top legislative body and former vice governor of the eastern province, is being investigated for corruption by the country’s top graft busters, authorities announced.
The 69-year-old, who had retired six years ago, is suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law” — a common euphemism for corruption, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a one-line statement published Sunday.
Su is also the fifth former head of a provincial-level political and legal affairs commission to have fallen under a graft probe since 2021, after the party launched a nationwide campaign to rectify misconduct within political and legal bodies.
The background: Su, a Fujian native, spent nearly four decades working in his home province, serving in various commissions including pricing, economic system reform, and development and planning, before becoming the vice governor in 2005. He was the secretary of the provincial party committee’s political and legal affairs commission from 2011 to 2015.
Since the political-legal rectification campaign was launched in February 2021, Wang Like, senior justice official in East China’s Jiangsu province; Yang Fulin, former deputy commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; Shang Liguang, deputy party chief of North China’s Shanxi province; and Gan Rongkun, former head of the political and legal affairs commission of Henan’s party committee, have also been investigated for graft.
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