Former top Inner Mongolia judge accused of taking bribes and lacking party loyalty
- Hu Yifeng allegedly ‘accepted bribes and took advantage of influence to accept bribes’
- Central Commission for Discipline Inspection alleges Hu has an improper family style, failed to discipline his children and is morally corrupt
Hu Yifeng, a former top judge of Inner Mongolia, has been handed to prosecutors to face corruption charges amid an anti-graft investigation into activities in the northern Chinese region up to two decades ago.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate formally arrested Hu, a previous president of the autonomous region’s higher people’s court, on suspicion of “accepting bribes and taking advantage of influence to accept bribes”, state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.
Hu has been under investigation by the Communist Party since April for alleged “serious violations of discipline and law”.
In September, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party’s anti-corruption watchdog, alleged Hu “completely abandoned his ideals and beliefs, was never truly loyal to the party and the people, and completely lost his party spirit and principles”.
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Hu was accused of violating party rules to take gifts and bribes, and breaching organisational principles when selecting and appointing cadres, which had a bad influence on the local government’s working environment, Xinhua quoted the CCDI as saying.