Another top Chinese official charged with bribery ahead of CPC key meeting – Times of India

Beijing: Ahead of the keys to the top Chinese officials of the ruling Communist Party Congress next month in which the President Xi Jinping Widely expected to win an unprecedented third term, support for an unprecedented third term continued with another top official being indicted on corruption charges on Thursday.
zhang Yongze, a former deputy chairman of the provincial government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, has been charged with bribery. xinhua news agency informed of.
According to his indictment, Zhang took advantage of his former positions and power to seek benefits for others in areas including project contracts and personnel promotion, and illegally accepted large amounts of money and valuables in return.
The National Supervision Commission had completed its investigation into Zhang’s case and launched a public prosecution against him at the Intermediate People’s Court in Xi’an.
On Wednesday, Liu Yanping, who heads the State Security Ministry branch of the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, was indicted on bribery charges, one of the officials facing trial in a new round of indictments in the anti-corruption campaign. and became the top official. Xi’s, which again overtook a major congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC,
Over the past few days, three security officers were sentenced to death for corruption with two years’ respite, raising eyebrows about a sudden increase in punishment ahead of the CPC’s once-in-five five-year congress on 16 October. , during which the 69-year-old Xi was expected to receive support for a third five-year term.
Sun Lijun, a former deputy minister of public security who was accused of leading a “political faction” opposed to Xi, was sentenced last Friday to two years for taking bribes by the Intermediate People’s Court of Changchun in Jilin, northeastern China. was sentenced to death with relief of Rs. province.
A day earlier, the same court sentenced Fu Zhenghua, a former justice minister and one of China’s most powerful police chiefs, and former Jiangsu official Wang Laik to death for two years for taking bribes.
Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has launched a shocking anti-corruption campaign that punished more than a million officials, including dozens of top military officials.
Xi’s critics say the anti-corruption campaign, set to complete his 10-year term this year, has enabled him to tighten his grip on the party and the military. The CPC organizes a Congress every five years. But this year’s Congress is considered important as it is a year of change of leadership for the century-old party.
Xi, who heads the party, the military and the presidency, will complete his 10-year term this year.
According to the norm widely followed since the death of the founder of the party Mao Zedong In 1976, all of Xi’s predecessors strictly followed a 10-year term in keeping with the instructions of Mao’s successor, Deng Xiaoping, to create a new and collective leadership to prevent some of the excesses such as the Cultural Revolution adopted by the party’s founder. ensure the rise of Mao Zedong in which millions of people were killed in the name of ideological experiment.
There are indications that Xi, who has been awarded the title of “main leader” like Mao, is expected to remain in power for a third term and perhaps for life, which has reportedly led some of the 96-million-strong party. Anxiety was created among them.