The CCP CC, at 8 minutes after midnight on December 6, 2014, announced that former Politburo Standing Committee member and China's Security Czar, Zhou Yongkang, had been expelled from the CC for serious violation of the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline and confidential discipline. Among the charges listed were: use of his office for people to seek illegal interests, accepting huge bribes directly or through family members; helping relatives, mistresses, friends, business activities to obtain huge profits, cause significant losses of state assets; disclosure of the party and state secrets; serious violations of the provisions of self-discipline; and a number of female adultery and illegal money transactions.