Sun Zhengcai charged with bribery

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Sun Zhengcai, former secretary of Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has been charged with bribery, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Tuesday.

The SPP transferred Sun's case to the first branch of Tianjin People's Procuratorate after completing the investigation according to the law, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

The first branch of the Tianjin People's Procuratorate has delivered the indictment paper to the First Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin, said the report.

Sun, 55, held the position of Party chief of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality from 2012 to 2017.

Ten days after his removal from the post on July 14, 2017, Sun was put under investigation by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), according to a decision by the CPC Central Committee.

On Sept. 29, 2017, a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee reviewed and approved a report on an investigation on Sun. The official was expelled from the CPC and dismissed from public office for "serious discipline violations."

Investigations have found that Sun lost his "political stance" and "seriously trampled on the Party's political disciplines and rules," a report by Xinhua News Agency said. He has seriously violated the CPC's "eight-point rules" against extravagance, waste and graft.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency