China's state media including Xinhua and CCTV reported on July 21, 2015 night that one-time top aide to former Chinese President Hu Jintao and Director of the powerful CCP CC's General Office, Ling Jihua, was officially expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and  formally arrested and will be criminally prosecuted on corruption charges.  It said that an investigation launched into 58-year old Ling Jihua in December found evidence that he had also violated “political rules” and organisational discipline, and failed to protect the secrets of the party. Xinhua added that Ling Jihua's actions "completely derailed the Party's nature and mission, seriously violating the Party's discipline, and immensely damaged the image of the Party with severely negative social influence". The Supreme People’s Procuratorate will launch a criminal investigation into the corruption allegations.