China will prosecute the former chairman of state-owned conglomerate China Resources Holding Co Ltd (華潤集團) on suspicion of corruption after accusing him of crimes including embezzlement, the anti-graft watchdog said yesterday.
Song Lin (宋林) was sacked last year after coming under investigation for suspected “serious violation of discipline,” the usual terminology for corruption.
Song took bribes, used public funds for personal expenses like playing golf and is an adulterer, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on its Web site in a brief statement.
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Party members can be punished for adultery as they are supposed to be upstanding members of society. The charge is frequently leveled at high-ranking graft suspects as a way of showing they are morally degenerate and deserve punishment.
His case has been transferred to the legal authorities, the watchdog said, meaning he is to face prosecution.
A former vice chairman, Wang Shuaiting (王帥廷), is also facing charges after being accused of similar crimes, the watchdog added.
Both men have been expelled from the party, it said.
The state prosecutor said separately that it had approved the detention of both men and had begun to build cases against them.
It was not possible to reach either of them for comment and it is not clear if they have lawyers.
China Resources Holdings is a holding company for a group of energy, land and consumer businesses in China and Hong Kong, including China Resources Gas Group Ltd (華潤燃氣), China Resources Cement Holdings Ltd (華潤水泥控股) and China Resources Power Holdings Co (華潤電力).
China’s top anti-corruption body had been investigating China Resources Holdings and its units for several months as part of a wide-ranging crackdown on graft by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), who has pledged to tackle high-ranking “tigers” as well as lowly “flies.”
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