Liu Lixian, a former member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) committee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and former head of the bank’s disciplinary inspection commission, has been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes, the agency reported today. Xinhua news.
The official announcement, published this Sunday on the website of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of the Asian giant, indicates that the arrest decision was made by the Shandong Provincial Prosecutor’s Office after the conclusion of an investigation by the National Supervisory Commission. the main anti-corruption body of the Chinese State,
The case is now undergoing further handling, with no specific details regarding Liu’s alleged corrupt activities or the possible amounts of money involved.
Liu, born in 1954, had a career dedicated to the fight against corruption.
After holding relevant positions in the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, specialized in bribery cases, he joined ICBC in 2005, where he led the disciplinary inspection commission for almost a decade.
Even between 2014 and 2017, he headed anti-corruption inspection groups at the central level.
However, in September 2023, his image was tarnished by suspicions of serious disciplinary violations, and in January 2024 he was expelled from the CCP for “serious violations of discipline and law.”
Liu’s is the latest name in the anti-corruption campaign that the Chinese authorities have been carrying out in the financial sector, active for years and which has so far resulted in the indictment of numerous officials from regulatory bodies and senior company executives. and banks.
After coming to power in 2012, the current CCP general secretary and president of the country, Xi Jinping, began an anti-corruption campaign in which numerous senior Chinese officials have been convicted of accepting million-dollar bribes.
Although this initiative, one of Xi’s star programs, has uncovered important cases of corruption within the CCP, some critics have suggested that it could also be used to end the political careers of some of his critics.
Source: Gestion
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