Guangdong, Shandong officials face party discipline probe over graft, mistresses

Senior mainland officials from Guangdong and Shandong provinces are among those who have been toppled in an ongoing anti-corruption campaign, according to state media reports.

Shandong's deputy agriculture chief, Shan Zengde , is being investigated for violating party discipline, a common euphemism for corruption, China National Radio reported yesterday.

This came after a recent handwritten letter, in which Shan allegedly promised his mistress he would be getting a divorce, was widely circulated online.

Du Zeyong, the office director for the Liaocheng city government in Shandong, is also being investigated after pictures surfaced online showing him wearing a red G-string, posing intimately with a woman who was not his wife.

Shandong's anti-graft watchdogs said yesterday that the party's disciplinary commission had been closely monitoring the situation.

Shandong's anti-graft commission received nearly 570,000 complaints last year. Of those, 10,499 investigations were opened and 10,155 cadres were punished.