The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CDIC) said in a statement on March 17, that the former former Director of the National Energy Administration and former Governor of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Nur Bekri, who was placed under investigation last September and removed from his post a month later, has been expelled from the CCP because he engaged in “family-style corruption”, illegally accepting property directly or through his relatives. 

(Comment: Nur Bekri, 57, is a native of Bole in Xinjiang. He worked in Xinjiang for more than 30 years. Since 2003, he has served as deputy secretary of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee. Since 2008, he has served as the chairman of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Government. He was transferred to the central government at the end of 2014.)