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Officials implicated by the anti-corruption campaign in China (2012–2017)

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Over one hundred officials of provincial-ministerial level and above have been implicated by the anti-corruption campaign in China, which began after the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012. The number of officials implicated below the provincial level are much higher. The tables on this list includes only officials for which a case has been initiated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

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National leaders

  Linked to Zhou Yongkang case   Military official

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Former and sitting Central Committee members

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Provincial-ministerial level

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Generals of the military

Other notable cases

  • Adil Nurmemet, mayor of Hotan, ethnic Uyghur
  • Feng Lixiang, party chief of Datong
  • Guo Yipin, vice-mayor of Luoyang, went into hiding upon learning that he might be under investigation; later arrested
  • Jia Xiaoye, Zhou Yongkang's wife. She was sentenced to 9 years in prison for taking bribes, influence-using bribery by the Intermediate People's Court in Yichang on June 15, 2016
  • Jiang Zunyu, head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Shenzhen; sentenced to life in prison but denied most of the charges against him
  • Li Huabo, a former local official in Poyang county, Jiangxi Province. Evaded Chinese authorities and went to Singapore in 2011, and deported from Singapore in 2015. Li was sentenced to life in prison for corruption worth 94 million yuan by the Intermediate People's Court in Shangrao on January 23, 2017
  • Ma Chaoqun, a municipal water works administrator from Qinhuangdao. Gained notoriety because millions of dollars of bribes were located in his apartment during an investigation by the authorities
  • Qu Songzhi, Li Chuncheng's wife, former director of the Red Cross Society of Chengdu. She was sentenced to seven years in prison for taking bribes on January 8, 2016
  • Tao Yuchun, a former senior executive of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). On September 27, 2016, Tao was sentenced to 23 years in prison for corruption worth 46 million yuan, embezzling public funds worth 9 million yuan, illegal profits for relatives, and abuse of power by the Intermediate People's Court in Zhuhai
  • Wang Guoqiang, a former Party chief of Fengcheng city in northeast China's Liaoning Province. Evaded Chinese authorities and fled abroad in 2012, before being deported from the United States in 2014. Wang was sentenced to 8 years in prison for taking bribes worth 9.59 million yuan and unidentified property by the Intermediate People's Court in Shenyang on January 23, 2017
  • Wei Pengyuan, a former deputy director of the National Energy Administration's coal department. Gained notoriety because worth over 200 million yuan of cash of bribes were found in his house in Beijing in 2014. On October 17, 2016, Wei was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve without commutation or parole when the sentence was automatically reduced to life imprisonment for taking bribes worth 211.7 million yuan and unidentified 131 million yuan property by the Intermediate People's Court in Baoding
  • Yang Xiaobo (female), mayor of Gaoping, Shanxi
  • Yang Xiuzhu (female), former deputy director of Zhejiang Construction Department and deputy mayor of Wenzhou. Evaded Chinese authorities and fled abroad in 2003, before being deported from the United States in 2016
  • Yu Tieyi, a former deputy manager of the supply division of the Longmay Mining Holding Group. On October 21, 2016, Yu was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve without commutation or parole when the sentence was automatically reduced to life imprisonment for taking bribes worth 306.8 million yuan by the Intermediate People's Court of Heilongjiang Forest Region in Harbin
  • Zhong Shijian, Guangdong party discipline official who was himself investigated
  • Zhou Bin, Zhou Yongkang's son. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison for taking bribes, influence peddling, and unlawful business operation by the Intermediate People's Court in Yichang on June 15, 2016
  • Zhou Feng, Zhou Yongkang's nephew. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for write false value added tax invoices and influence peddling by the Intermediate People's Court in Yichang on June 17, 2016

Non-political personalities

References

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