China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate announced Friday the arrest of Li Guohua, who was once the chairman of the country’s second-largest telephone operator, for corruption as part of President Xi Jinping’s years-long crusade against crime among the country’s political and economic upper classes.
Li, also a former committee secretary in the Chinese Communist Party, served as general manager of China United Network Communications Group or China Unicom until the start of an investigation by the National Supervisory Commission, China’s main anti-corruption body.
The investigation, as reported by the Procuratorate on its website, has led to the indictment of the former executive «for bribery and abuse of power», and the case is now in the hands of the courts.
The Prosecutor’s Office has also ordered the arrest of the former Prosecutor General of Shanghai, Zhang Bencai, also on charges of allegedly accepting bribes, as also reflected on its website.
