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BEIJING: Ma Xingrui, a member of China’s elite Politburo, is under investigation over suspected “serious violation of law and discipline”, becoming the latest senior Chinese leader to fall under the anti-graft watchdog’s scrutiny.<\/p>\n
China is stepping up its years-long fight to root out corruption with the purge of sitting members of the Politburo, the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s decision-making body.<\/p>\n
Ma, who also serves as the deputy leader of the central rural work leading group, is undergoing a disciplinary review and supervisory investigation, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a notice on Friday (Apr 3).<\/p>\n
It did not disclose any details regarding the case.<\/p>\n
The investigation into Ma follows the probe of another Politburo member and China’s top general Zhang Youxia<\/a> in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n The expulsion of He Weidong<\/a> from the ruling party for corruption last year reduced the 24-member Politburo to 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ma and Zhang remain members in name only while the investigations unfold.<\/p>\n Ma’s most recent known public appearance was at the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s Fourth Plenum<\/a> in late October.\u00a0<\/p>\n