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Update | Nanjing Communist Party chief in corruption probe stripped of post

Graft investigation into Yang Weize, ex-party chief in the eastern Chinese city, was announced on Sunday

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Former Nanjing Communist Party chief Yang Weize. Photo: Reuters
Laura ZhouandMandy Zuoin Shanghai

The Communist Party’s chief in Nanjing in eastern China has been stripped of his post four days after it was announced that he was under investigation for corruption.

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The decision to remove Yang Weize from office was made by the party’s Central Committee, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

The party’s anti-corruption investigators announced on Sunday that Yang, 52, was suspected of a “serious violation of party discipline and law”, a form of words often used by the authorities in China to describe graft.

No details were given of the allegations made against him.

One woman allegedly involved in Yang’s case has been detained by anti-corruption investigators in Wuxi near Nanjing in Jiangsu province, according to Jiemian, a news website operated by the Shanghai United Media group.

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The report cited several unnamed sources as saying that Yu Minyan, a 31-year-old propaganda department chief in a development zone in Wuxi, was detained on Sunday night.

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