China’s top graft-buster says no one off limits in probes
Wang Qishan, head of the Communist Party’s efforts to combat corruption, warned during a visit to Inner Mongolia that every element of the party would be liable for inspection
No part of the ruling Communist Party is off limits for its crackdown on corruption, the country’s top graft buster was quoted as saying, sounding a warning a few days after the one of the country’s most senior former soldiers was purged.
The party this week announced that Xu Caihou, who retired as vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission last year, had been expelled from the party and will be court-martialed after being accused of corruption.
President Xi Jinping, who heads the Central Military Commission, which controls the 2.3 million-strong armed forces, has launched a drive against pervasive graft since assuming office.
Speaking during a visit to the northern region of Inner Mongolia, Wang Qishan, who heads the party’s efforts to combat corruption, warned that every part of the party would be liable for inspection.
“Inspection work is a ‘health check’ for the party. There are no off limits for oversight within in the party, and there are no exceptions,” the party’s graft watchdog cited Wang as saying, in a statement issued late on Friday.
President Xi has vowed to take down powerful “tigers” as well as lowly “flies”.
Xu is the most senior person to date to have been felled.