Shanxi's deputy head of discipline dismissed

Another senior official has been removed from his post and expelled from the Party in corruption-plagued Shanxi province as a wide-ranging anti-graft campaign continues.

Yang Senlin, executive vice-secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, was deemed guilty of "misuse of power, taking huge bribes, accepting gifts of money and committing adultery", the nation's top anti-graft authority said on Monday.

Forty-seven officials in Shanxi have faced corruption charges since the nationwide anti-graft campaign started in late 2012. They include seven at the provincial level, making it the province with the most high-ranking officials to come under suspicion so far.