China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the nation’s highest prosecutorial authority, has announced the arrest of Cui Maohu, the former head of China’s National Religious Affairs Administration, on suspicions of accepting bribes. This was disclosed on Monday.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China’s internal disciplinary body, had previously dismissed Cui Maohu from the National Religious Affairs Administration and launched a corruption investigation against him on March 18. Following the investigation, he was dismissed and then expelled from China’s ruling Communist Party, leading to his removal from public office last Wednesday.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission alleged that Cui illegally occupied arable land for vanity projects. The Commission also accused him of improperly accepting gifts and property and using his position for personal sexual and financial gains.
This is not an isolated incident. Zheng Hong, the ex-Deputy Chairman of Chongqing Municipal People’s Congress, and Jiang Zhigang, the former Deputy Party Chief of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, were placed under investigation just a few days prior to Cui on similar suspicion of corruption. Chinese President Xi Jinping, in his address to the Communist Party Congress last October, vowed to continue the nation’s crackdown on corruption. In line with this ethos, the Ministry of National Defense also asserted that the Chinese military strictly adheres to the law, and corruption will not be tolerated.
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