What’s new: The former chairman and Communist Party chief of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has been expelled from the party for violations including accepting “huge” bribes and “long associating with political fraudsters and being exploited by them,” the country’s top graft buster said Wednesday.
Wang Yilin took bribes in exchange for helping others in areas including project contracting and business operations, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a statement. Wang also indulged his relatives’ use of his influence for personal gain and accepted several trips arranged by private business owners.
