One of the largest telecommunications firms in China, already shaking under the pressure of the Chinese regime’s wide-reaching, anti-corruption campaign, has been implicated in a slew of transgressions, according to a recent report—bribes, corruption, and widespread sexual favors are among the findings of an official investigation carried out last December.
For top executives at China Unicom, ranked as the world’s third-largest telecommunications provider, nepotism and bribery are par the course, the report states.
On Feb. 5, a report detailing the many instances of corruption at China Unicom was published on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency
China state-run media was quick to point out what should be read from the anti-graft agency’s announcement.
“Trade of sex for favors must be rampant within China Unicom,” stated an opinion article published by People’s Net, the online publication of regime mouthpiece People’s Daily, on Feb. 6.
“It is by no means a stretch to predict that more ’tigers’ and ‘flies’ within China Unicom are going to be purged,” the report reads. “These soon-to-be purged individuals will surely be implicated in these sexual and financial scandals.”
“Tigers” and “flies” in Chinese political jargon refers to high- and low- ranking corrupt officials in the Communist Party.
The anti-corruption agency’s report was first presented to Chang Xiaobing, chair of China Unicom, by Li Xiaohong, who heads the anti-graft task force that set up shop in the company, and Ning Yanling, director of the agency’s 8th Central Inspection Unit.
