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Reuters

Luxury cars filled with gold bars were given away as bribes by a former senior military officer implicated in a graft case investigators say involves 30 billion yuan (HK$37.8 billion).
Lieutenant General Gu Junshan, the former deputy director of the logistics department of the People's Liberation Army, is suspected of selling hundreds of military positions.
Sources close to the top of the logistics department said Gu took bribes worth about 600 million yuan in return for his part in a scam involving a total of 30 billion yuan.
The claims were reported yesterday by Phoenix Weekly, a magazine run by broadcaster Phoenix Television, which has close ties to the central government.
In March the government charged Gu with corruption.
Gu was obsessed with gold, especially gold statues of Buddha, though he preferred gold dust to gold bars, the magazine reported.
When offering gifts, he would load up a Mercedes with gold bars and then simply hand over the car keys to the recipient, the report said. In all, 100kg of gold was given away.
A Hong Kong businessman implicated in a military graft probe in 2011 is reported to have informed investigators of Gu's crimes.
Gu's case is connected to Xu Caihou , who retired as deputy head of the powerful Central Military Commission last year and from the ruling Communist Party's decision-making Politburo in 2012.
A graft probe into Xu was announced in June.
The magazine said Gu had powerful patrons, but did not name Xu directly, referring only to a person called "X".
President Xi Jinping has pursued a sweeping campaign against corruption since becoming party chief in late 2012 and president last year. Weeding out corruption in the military is a top goal of the campaign.
The latest generals under investigation include Major General Dai Weimin , a vice-president of the PLA Nanjing Institute of Politics, the mainland news outlet Caixin reported yesterday.
Citing multiple anonymous sources, Caixin said Dai was detained around mid-November for allegations linked to land and infrastructure projects at the institute's Shanghai campus.
Dai, 52, an Anhui native, joined the air force's politics college in Shanghai in the 1990s.
The college later merged into the Nanjing Institute of Politics. Dai became a major general in 2010 and was promoted to vice-president of the institute last year.
Military prosecutors recently said housing and infrastructure works were among the most common areas where graft took place in the PLA.
Additional reporting by Laura Zhou
 


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An unfinished home of disgraced PLA General Gu Junshan in Puyang, Henan. Photo: Reuters

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Senior PLA figure said to be obsessed with gold suspected of part in scam worth 30 billion yuan


Luxury cars filled with gold bars were given away as bribes by a former senior military officer implicated in a graft case investigators say involves 30 billion yuan (HK$37.8 billion).
