China’s anti-corruption squads target funeral officials making a killing from the dead


China’s state-run funeral industry has become a fresh target for the country’s anti-corruption investigators, with a string of cases across the country in recent months.

In the latest case, Communist Party disciplinary investigators in Huainan, Anhui province, announced on Friday that they had detained Zhang Duo, from the Panji district funeral home for “suspected of serious violations of discipline and law”.

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