China teleco executive investigated for corruption
Zong Xinhua second official at firm to be accused of alleged graft this week
A senior official at the telecommunications giant China Unicom is under investigation for alleged corruption.
A statement on the company’s website said that Zong Xinhua had been sacked and was to be questioned over alleged serious violations of discipline, a form of words often used by the authorities in China to describe graft.
Zong was the general manager of the company’s information technology and e-commerce business unit.
He was in charge of increasing the firm’s business generated online.
The statement did not give details of the allegations made against Zong.
The Communist Party’s anti-graft agency the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection launched its latest round of inspections targeting mainly state-owned enterprises last month, including China Unicom.