China's military has undergone a sweeping anti-corruption purge since last year.
China 's military has undergone a sweeping anti-corruption purge since last year.BEIJING: China 's Communist Party on Thursday expelled former defence minister Li Shangfu and his predecessor Wei Fenghe for"serious violations of discipline", a euphemism for corruption, state news agency Xinhua reported.
President Xi Jinping, also the military's commander-in-chief, appointed a new head and political commissar of the Rocket Force last July, in a major shake-up of the unit that oversees China's conventional and nuclear missiles. However, Xinhua reported that an investigation launched into Wei last September found that he had accepted"a huge amount of money and valuables" in bribes and"helped others gain improper benefits in personnel arrangements".
The decisions to strip both of their party membership were approved on Thursday by the seven-member Politburo, the Communist Party's apex of power. The Politburo also transferred both their cases to military prosecutors.
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