The Chinese communist party's chief disciplinary body has launched a large anti-corruption campaign targeting managers and executives of three major telecom operators, Caing.com reports.

Officials from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection have moved in recent weeks to detain and interrogate leadership at China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the website reported.

The government and telecom firms have refused to comment on the investigation. But public commentary on dismissed executives at China Mobile has spread like wildfire.

The investigation will last until June, during which all middle-level and above administrative staff have been asked to submit their passports.

Seven high-ranking China Mobile executives have been punished since 2009. Former Party chief and deputy general manager of China Mobile Zhang Chunjiang has been removed from his official post and expelled from the CPC for taking bribes. Shi Wanzhong, general manager of human resources at China Mobile, was detained for accepting bribes from Siemens. Lin Donghua, former deputy general manager of China Mobile's Hubei branch, was also punished for serious corruption.

In March 2010, several regulatory authorities opened an investigation of Li Xiangdong, former general manager of China Mobile Sichuan's wireless music base. After meeting with central government auditors to discuss his assets and the allocation of company funds, he disappeared into the night with hundreds of millions of RMB. Luckily, he was caught by police before he could flee the country.

China Mobile recently confirmed that Ma Li, deputy general manager of the company's data division, was under investigation on suspicion of "serious disciplinary violations."

Ye Bing, former CEO of ASPire Holdings, a subsidiary of China Mobile, had also been taken away by authorities for investigation. Ye Bing was appointed as CEO of ASPire Holdings in 2008, which provides data services for China Mobile.

"Lack of efficient supervision on high-profile executives of governments and companies has led to rent seeking behavior," said Fu Liang, an independent telecommunications analyst.

根據(jù)財(cái)新網(wǎng)的消息，中紀(jì)委正在發(fā)起一項(xiàng)針對(duì)中國(guó)三大電信運(yùn)營(yíng)商高管的反腐行動(dòng)。

中紀(jì)委已向中國(guó)移動(dòng)、中國(guó)聯(lián)通和中國(guó)電信三家運(yùn)營(yíng)商派駐了調(diào)查人員。

對(duì)此運(yùn)營(yíng)商們保持了緘默。盡管沒有官方證實(shí)，不過(guò)，中國(guó)移動(dòng)數(shù)名高管落馬已經(jīng)讓輿論沸沸揚(yáng)揚(yáng)。

該消息援引知情者的話說(shuō)，調(diào)查初步預(yù)計(jì)將持續(xù)到6月初，其間，三大運(yùn)營(yíng)商中層以上干部均被要求上交護(hù)照。

從2009年至今，中國(guó)移動(dòng)已經(jīng)有7名高管落馬。第一個(gè)是原中國(guó)移動(dòng)黨組書記、副總裁張春江。因"涉嫌嚴(yán)重經(jīng)濟(jì)問(wèn)題"，張春江后被"雙開"。去年年初，中國(guó)移動(dòng)人力資源部總經(jīng)理施萬(wàn)中涉嫌收受西門子公司賄賂，被有關(guān)部門帶走協(xié)助調(diào)查。去年4月，又驚曝湖北移動(dòng)原副總經(jīng)理林東華涉嫌巨額貪污。

而牽涉面最大的則是后來(lái)的數(shù)據(jù)業(yè)務(wù)"窩案"。2010年，四川移動(dòng)數(shù)據(jù)部原總經(jīng)理、中國(guó)無(wú)線音樂運(yùn)營(yíng)中心總經(jīng)理李向東在審計(jì)部門的一次例行談話中，心虛攜款外逃，隨后被捕。

本月中旬，中國(guó)移動(dòng)證實(shí)，該公司數(shù)據(jù)部副總經(jīng)理馬力涉嫌重大違紀(jì)正在接受調(diào)查；

一周前又有消息說(shuō)，中國(guó)移動(dòng)原數(shù)據(jù)部部長(zhǎng)、原卓望控股CEO葉兵近日已被有關(guān)部門帶走調(diào)查。最近落馬的葉兵從2008年2月開始出任卓望控股CEO。