Storm of Corruption Investigations Lashes China’s Financial Industry

Scandal and suicide hit China’s banking industry in the past few days.
Storm of Corruption Investigations Lashes China’s Financial Industry
In this file photo, a man walks by the head office of China's largest private lender Minsheng Bank in Beijing, on Feb. 25, 2002. On Jan. 31, mainland Chinese media reported that Mao Xiaofeng, the president of the bank, had been detained in a corruption investigation. AFP/Getty Images
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The banking industry is now a focus of the Chinese regime’s two-years plus anti-corruption campaign. In the past week, two high-ranking banking executives were taken away for investigation, and another committed suicide.

The Bank of Beijing, whose largest shareholder is the Beijing municipal government, announced on the evening of Feb. 2 that Lu Haijun, a board member, is being investigated for “serious violations of Party discipline.”