Chinese President Xi Jinping has waged an unrelenting campaign against official graft since coming to power more than a decade ago.
BEIJING - Former Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party for causing “great damage to cause” through offences including suspected bribery, state media said on June 27.after only seven months in the role following a lengthy absence from public view, one of the most prominent examples in a series of high-level disappearances from China’s military establishment and political class.
The Communist Party’s powerful Politburo of senior leaders ruled on June 27 Li had “betrayed his original mission and lost his party spirit and principles”, according to CCTV. He also “illegally sought personnel benefits for himself and others”, CCTV said, adding “the nature is extremely severe, their impact was particularly egregious, and the harm from them was particularly huge”.He had travelled to a security conference in Russia in August and days later held a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to handout photos.
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