People's Liberation Army confirms graft investigations into 14 officials
Speculation grows over fate of former CMC vice-chairman as the military confirms his son is among the senior figures being investigated
The People's Liberation Army has announced official investigations into 14 senior military officials, including the son of Guo Boxiong, a former vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission.
The announcement on Monday follows a report by the South China Morning Post the same day that revealed 12 of the 14 cases.
Guo Zhenggang, the newly promoted deputy political commissar of the Zhejiang Provincial Military Command, was being investigated on suspicion of "serious violations of law" - a euphemism for graft - the PLA Daily newspaper said on its microblog. The announcement came shortly after a press conference for the plenary session of the country's top political advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Military prosecutors opened the investigation into Guo in February, the newspaper said.
Another report revealed Guo Zhenggang's wife Wu Fangfang was linked to the developer of an unfinished building in the military-owned area in Hangzhou.
Financial magazine Caijing reported that Wu was a shareholder in Dong Wu, a company that had failed to finish the construction of a metal products market despite having collected rent of more than 500 million yuan (HK$628 million) from its would-be commercial tenants. The 300,000 square metre market was supposed to have been completed in 2011 but remains unfinished.
Some tenants who had tried, unsuccessfully, to sue the company over the delay protested outside the construction site on January 1, with many chanting "Guo Zhenggang, pay me back", Caijing reported.