China began the trial of former senior official Sun Zhengcai on bribery charges on Thursday, a Chinese court said, the latest development in a corruption investigation into a man once considered a contender for top leadership.
BEIJING: China began the trial of former senior official Sun Zhengcai on bribery charges on Thursday, a Chinese court said, the latest development in a corruption investigation into a man once considered a contender for top leadership.
Sun, 54, was abruptly removed from his post as the ruling Communist Party’s chief of the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing — one of China’s most important cities — in July, and replaced by Chen Miner, who is close to President Xi Jinping.
Chinese prosecutors in February charged Sun with accepting «huge sums» in bribes during various posts going back 15 years in Chongqing, Beijing, Jilin province, and as minister of agriculture.
