Former director of China’s second largest telephone operator arrested for corruption

Nov. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Supreme People’s Prosecutor’s Office of China announced this Friday the arrest of Li Guohua, who was in his day the president of the country’s second largest telephone operator, for corruption in the framework of the crusade that the country’s president, Xi Jinping, leads undertaking for years against crime among the high political and economic classes of the country.

Li, also a former committee secretary in the Chinese Communist Party, served as CEO of China United Network Communications Group or China Unicom until the start of an investigation by the National Supervisory Commission, the Chinese state’s top anti-corruption body.

The investigation, as the Prosecutor’s Office has made known on its website, has led to the accusation of the former manager “for bribery and abuse of power”, and the case is already in the hands of the courts.

The Prosecutor’s Office has also ordered the arrest of the former Shanghai Attorney General, Zhang Bencai, also on charges of allegedly accepting bribes, as also reflected on its website.