Multiple High-Ranking Officials in China’s Tobacco Industry Probed for Corruption

Chinese workers packing electronic cigarettes at a factory in Shenzhen, in southern China's Guangdong Province, on March 12, 2013. STR/AFP/Getty Images

Since the start of this year, several executives and senior officials in China’s tobacco industry have been under investigation by China’s top disciplinary watchdog.

Zhu Shaoming, former general manager of China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co., Ltd. (“Yunnan Tobacco”), is “suspected of serious violations of discipline and law” and is currently “undergoing disciplinary inspection,” the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a notice on June 2.