Chinese officials suspected of corruption were accused of reading the “wrong” books
China’s anti-corruption agency has accused Chinese officials suspected of corruption of reading the “wrong” books. About this reports South China Morning Post.
According to the publication, reading publications with “serious political problems” has become more common accusations against “disgraced” officials. It is noted that similar points in anti-corruption cases have appeared in at least a dozen cases this year – compared to seven last year.
We are talking about prohibited political literature, which is published outside of mainland China and explores a “delicate” period for the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China. This includes stories about intra-party struggles; controversial episodes of the Chinese Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, famine, the Cultural Revolution and the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
Reading such books and articles, as follows from the newspaper publication, is interpreted by Chinese officials as a manifestation of disloyalty to the party. “It’s not a big deal if they’re not under disciplinary investigation, but it could be serious evidence of disloyalty when they’re discovered.” [надзорный орган]”explained Deng Yuwen, former deputy editor of Study Times, the newspaper of the Central Party School of the People’s Republic of China.
Earlier, the Chinese state television channel CCTV aired a documentary about the crimes of high-ranking local corrupt officials; its heroes were the former head of one of the major cities and the deputy head of the Central Bank of the People’s Republic of China. The film mentions the former deputy head of the People’s Bank of China, Fan Yifei, who accepted huge bribes for providing loans and various preferences for companies; as a result of the investigation, he was fired from his post and expelled from the Communist Party of China.
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