Party expels former Guangzhou deputy mayor for alleged multiple adulterous relationships
Cao Jianliao has also been accused of taking "especially huge" bribes following a seven-month-long investigation, the Guangdong anti-graft agency reported
After seven months of investigation, Cao Jianliao, Guangzhou’s former deputy mayor, has been expelled from the party, the Guangdong anti-graft agency said on its website this afternoon.
Cao has been accused of “having adulterous relationships with multiple women”.
The word “adultery” first entered the lexicon of the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in June, when it announced that Dai Chunning, the former vice-president of China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, had been expelled from the party for suspected corruption.
Cao is the first government official to be charged with having “multiple” adulterous relations.
Party authorities used to describe extra-marital affairs with the words “morally degenerate”, “decadent lifestyle”, or “having improper relationships with women”.
Bo Xilai, the sacked Chongqing party boss, was said to have been “keeping or having improper sexual relationships with several women”.
Last month, the former Guangzhou party boss, Wan Qingliang, was removed from his post. Wan was seen as a rising political star, governing the metropolis of 12 million people, which is traditionally a stepping stone to higher positions.