China probes top official in latest anti-graft push


  • World
  • Sunday, 01 Sep 2013

Chairman of PetroChina Jiang Jiemin releases the company's annual results at a news conference in Hong Kong March 19, 2008. REUTERS/Garrige Ho

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is investigating the head of its state assets regulator, a former top energy executive, for "serious discipline violations", the government said on Sunday in what appears to be a deepening crackdown on corruption and push for reform.

A brief government announcement said Jiang Jiemin was "suspected of serious discipline violations", shorthand the government generally uses to describe graft.

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