Former top China army officer under house arrest in graft probe - sources


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  • Thursday, 20 Mar 2014

Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission General Xu Caihou salutes during his speech greeting the launch of China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu Province, November 1, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily

BEIJING (Reuters) - A top retired Chinese general has been put under virtual house arrest while he assists with an investigation into the military's worst corruption scandal in almost a decade, two sources said, an indication the probe might be expanding.

General Xu Caihou, 70, who retired as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission last year and from the Communist Party's decision-making politburo in 2012, was taken to an undisclosed location on Monday for questioning by anti-corruption investigators, the two sources told Reuters.

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