China trial begins for ally of retired domestic security chief

[WorldNews]

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A former senior Chinese official and an ally of retired security boss Zhou Yongkang stood trial on Thursday on charges of bribery and abuse of power in central China, the latest in a string of top officials connected to Zhou caught in an anti-graft campaign. The trial began at the Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Xianning City in the central province of Hubei, the court said on its official microblog account. President Xi Jinping's two-year graft crackdown has taken down at least a dozen former associates and protégées of Zhou, the once-powerful domestic security chief and member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee and the most senior person to have been charged with corruption. Li Chuncheng, former deputy party boss of southwestern Sichuan province, was charged last year with bribery and abuse of power.

 

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