While China’s president Xi Jinping has been conducting a sweeping campaign ever since coming to power over three years ago, meant to root out deply ingrained corruption in China’s communist party, one individual was assumed to be immune from prosecution – the person responsible for fabricating and goalseeking China’s economic “data”, the one in charge of China’s National Bureau Of Statistics. That turned out to be wrong when China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection – the local anti-corruption watchdog – announced on Friday it would prosecute the former head of its statistics bureau, Wang Baoan, accusing him of serious violations of discipline, including extravagance, abuse of power and selling power for sex.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 26, 2016.
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