Another close associate of former Chinese regime head Jiang Zemin is being identified as corrupt.
This time, the official on the hot seat is Jia Tian-an, a longtime secretary to Jiang. The first 2015 edition of the mainland magazine China Through the Ages (Yanghuang Chunqiu) reports the personal account of former major general Zhang Jinchang that names an official “XXX” who helped a corrupt official gain a high-ranking position in the Chinese military. It is widely recognized in China hat “XXX” is Jia. The magazine is known to be relatively liberal, but was taken over by Beijing in October 2014.
In 1996, the corrupt official Wang Shouyou,was able to pull some strings to dodge Party punishment and assume the position of construction minister of the General Logistics Department, one of the agencies beneath the powerful Central Military Commission, which oversees China’s armed forces.
“Wang was able to get very close with XXX, a secretary to a powerful leader of the Central Military Commission. Wang treated him to dinner and brought him gifts. And they became like best buddies,” Zhang recounted. “Within 4 months, the secretary, XXX, called the leaders of the General Logistics Department to name Wang as the construction minister.”
