Anti-corruption investigators in the central Chinese province of Shanxi have unveiled their latest target: anti-corruption investigators.
A total of 106 cadres in the Shanxi Commission for Discipline Inspection, the provincial anti-corruption instrument, were punished in what state-media called “self-surgery,” from December last year to March this year.
The announcement comes after a series of purges in Shanxi related to control of the coal industry, and the brother of the former top level Party official Ling Jihua.
China News, a state-run outlet, wrote, “In 2014, systemic, landslide-style corruption was found in Shanxi.” Top officials that were removed in the purge of the Shanxi disciplinary apparatus include its secretary, deputy secretary, a member of the standing committee, and its deputy director.
