A former deputy mayor of Fuzhou is being probed for amassing numerous properties and cash of 30 million yuan (HK$37 million).
People's Daily yesterday reported that after an investigation was launched in April, the Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog found 17 property ownership certificates and the money in Yang Aijin's house.
Yang, 63, was a deputy mayor of Fujian's provincial capital from December 2007 to 2010.
He made his last public appearance as deputy head of the city's family planning association on March 23 at a variety show in Changle .
Last week, association staff said Yang had been absent from duty for more than three months. They refused to say whether he had been removed from office.
There has been widespread speculation of a probe on Yang since his removal from the people's congress of Fuzhou on April 24.
Yesterday's report said a businessman, a former confidant of Yang's who became embroiled in a business dispute with him, had accused Yang of graft.