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Timeline: Life and career of Ling Jihua, the disgraced top aide of former Chinese leader Hu Jintao
Ling Jihua next to generals Guo Boxiong, Xu Qiliang at the closing of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 14 November 2012. Photo: AFP
Ling Jihua, the one-time top aide to former president Hu Jintao, is being investigated by the Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog, it said on Monday.
Ling, 58, was under investigation for "suspected serious disciplinary violations", a term that usually refers to corruption, a statement read.
The announcement comes two years after Ling's political career was dealt a major blow with the controversy surrounding the death of his son Ling Gu in a Ferrari crash in March 2012.
It marks the fall from grace of a man poised to join to highest levels of power in China prior to the fatal accident.
Members of his well-connected family have also been probed in his home province Shanxi over allegations of graft.