CHINA-INTERNAL: LEADERSHIP/ANTI-CORRUPTION
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Hong Kong's 'Ming Pao' daily said on July 3, that action against former Politburo Standing Committee member and China's Security Czar, Zhou Yongkang, is imminient and sentencing is likely within the next few days. It cited the action against his aides as the indicator. In the past three days, six people considered closely connected to Zhou Yongkang have been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for serious violations of discipline and law, according to information disclosed by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CDIC) and the Ministry of Supervision. The CDIC said on July 2, that three people who used to work under Zhou Yongkang had been investigated for graft and dismissed from their posts. They include Ji Wenlin, former Vice Governor of southern China’s Hainan province who was formerly Zhou Yongkang's secretary; Yu Gang, also a former secretary of Zhou Yongkang; and Tan Hong, a former senior member of the Security Protection Bureau in the Ministry of Public Security. On June 30, the party had announced the expulsion of three other former aides of Zhou Yongkang namely, Jiang Jiemin, former executive of China National Petroleum Corp.; Li Dongsheng, former Vice Minister of Public Security; and Wang Yongchun, a former Deputy General Manager of CNPC.
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