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Zhou Benshun, a former party chief in Hebei province, has been charged with bribery by the Fujian provincial Xiamen city People's Procuratorate, which has also prosecuted the case in the Xiamen city Intermediate People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate revealed on Sunday.
According to the indictment, while serving as the party chief in Shaoyang city in Hunan, Hunan provincial security chief, secretary general in Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Central Committee or party chief in Hebei, he used job convenience to benefit others and accepted their huge bribes.
Yang Dongliang, former head of the State Administration of Work Safety, has been accused with corruption and bribery by the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate No2 Branch, according to the top prosecuting department.
The prosecutors charged, when serving as the deputy mayor in Tianjin Municipal People's Government and head of the State Administration of Work Safety, he abused power to gain benefits for others and accepted their bribes. He was also accused of illegally occupying public finance, it said.
Since November 2012, when the new leadership was elected, anti-corruption has become a top priority for the country and President Xi Jinping has launched a sweeping campaign to target both high and low-ranking officials, or “tigers and flies.”
To date, more than 140 high-ranking officials have been placed under investigation over alleged graft, including Zhou Yongkang, former security chief, who was sentenced to life in prison in June 2015.
