Former Shanghai Party Chief Chen Liangyu is currently being held
in jail pending the start of his prosecution, China's disciplinary
watchdog confirmed in Beijing Thursday.
Gan Yisheng, spokesman for the Communist Party of China's
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said Chen's case has
been handed over to prosecutors, adding that these were
investigating the case and that a trial date would be fixed by the
courts.
Chen Liangyu was expelled from the CPC and sacked from all
government posts on July 26 as he stands accused of corruption. Two
days earlier, he was also removed from his position as deputy to
the 10th National People's Congress on July 24.
Chen, born in 1946, was the secretary of CPC Shanghai Municipal
Committee and member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau
when he was tarnished by accusations of corruption.?
According to an investigation by the CPC watchdog, Chen abused
his power to use the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social
Security in securing vast loans for favored private enterprises
from the Shanghai social security fund.
He also made it easier for private companies to buy into
state-owned enterprises, thereby causing great harm to public
assets.
Chen is also thought to have garnered illicit profits from
project examination and approval, fund allocation, investment
attraction, land planning and promoting inferior officials. Both
Chen and his family received bribes worth staggering amounts of
money.
(Xinhua News Agency August 2, 2007)
