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Shanghai Airport Authority boss under investigation for violating Party discipline and laws

Wu Jianrong, formerly an official of the Shanghai municipal government, is being investigated by an anti-corruption agency for undisclosed offenses

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A passenger uses his mobile phone to take a picture of an aircraft at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. The chairman of the airport’s parent company, the Shanghai Airport Authority, is under investigation for violating Shanghai Communist Party’s discipline and laws. Photo: Bloomberg
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In the biggest scandal involving a Shanghai-based state-owned company boss in three years, Wu Jianrong, chairman of the Shanghai Airport Authority, has been placed under investigation for violating Party discipline and laws.

Wu, 56, a former deputy secretary general of the Shanghai municipal government, is being investigated by the Communist Party’s Shanghai commission for discipline inspection, the anti-corruption organisation said in a statement on Monday evening.

Wu Jianrong, chairman of the Shanghai Airport Authority, is under investigation for serious violations of the law. Photo: Imaginechina
Wu Jianrong, chairman of the Shanghai Airport Authority, is under investigation for serious violations of the law. Photo: Imaginechina
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It did not specify any allegations of wrongdoing committed by Wu, whose agency operates both the Pudong and Hongqiao airports.

The anti-corruption watchdog said that Wu was suspected of not only violating Party discipline but also infringing upon Chinese laws.

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Investigations by the disciplinary body into a senior official normally lead to corruption charges by police and prosecutors.

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