China Party Expels Ex-Official for Bribery
China’s Communist Party announced Friday that it has expelled a former deputy railway minister and eight lesser officials for corruption, national radio reported.
Luo Yunguang was the highest ranking official to be expelled from the party for bribe-taking. He was dismissed from his official post in April.
He was the ringleader of a group of 48 people who accepted 960,000 yuan ($203,821) in bribes in exchange for business favors, the radio said. Luo himself took 2,950 yuan ($626), a gold ring and a refrigerator, it said.
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