CHINA-INTERNAL: LEADERSHIP/CORRUPTION
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The official 'Xinhua' news agency reported that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had decided on June 30, 2014, to revoke the party membership of General Xu Caihou, former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, for "suspected crimes of taking bribery." At a Politburo meeting chaired by CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping the same day, it was also decided to hand over Xu Caihou's case to military prosecutors who have been designated by the Supreme People's Procuratorate to "handle the case according to the law." Xu Caihou is now likely to face a court martial once investigations are completed.
The Party, also on June 30, announced that Jiang Jiemin, former head of China's Assets Supervision and Administration Commission who was arrested in September 2013, and Li Dongsheng, former Vice Minister of Public Security who was being investigated since December, had been expelled from the Party. Li Dongsheng was earlier a Vice Minister of the CCP CC's Propaganda Department.
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