China puts former security chief under house arrest-sources

December 29, 2013

BEIJING – China has put Zhou Yongkang, one of the most powerful politicians of the last decade, under virtual house arrest while the ruling Communist Party investigates accusations of corruption against him, several sources said on Wednesday.

Zhou is the most senior official to be ensnared in a graft scandal since the Communists came to power in 1949. He was the domestic security tsar and a member of the party’s Politburo Standing Committee – the pinnacle of power in the country – when he retired last year.

Read more

Comments are closed.

Ne-am mutat! Aici puteți accesa în continuare arhiva PPW. Click aici pentru noua versiune a Power&Politics World sau accesați adresa www.powerpolitics.ro/new