New | Shanghai graft probe ensnares 11 officials
Rare announcement of such a large number being detained comes after central government graft team sent to the city
Shanghai’s anti-corruption drive widened on Tuesday with the announcement by the city’s Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection that 11 officials had been placed under investigation, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
The announcement on a single day of such a large number of officials from the same city being probed is rare, and comes after the central government dispatched a high-profile disciplinary inspection team to Shanghai in August as part of the fourth round of nationwide sweeps launched by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
The 11 officials were implicated in eight separate cases of corruption, the newspaper reported. Four have been placed under an internal party probe, and seven have been transferred to the judiciary.
The city’s anti-corruption watchdog announced that Wu Zhongquan, former director of the Construction and Transportation Commission in Shanghai’s Minhang district, and Tang Guiming, former party secretary of Xuanqiao county in the now defunct Nanhui district were being investigated for “serious disciplinary violations”, a phrase routinely used as a euphemism for corruption.
Also being investigated were Zhu Jinhua, former deputy director of the urban planning and land management department in Nanhui, and Zhang Wenjun, former bureau chief of Nanhui’s housing and land administration bureau.
The statement provided no further details about the investigations.