- The office of China's Chief Procuratorate announced recently that Li Chuncheng, a former Deputy Party Secretary of Sichuan Province and Jiang Jiemin, a former Chairman of the China National Petroleum Corporation, will face trial in Hubei Province.
- The Party newspaper People's Daily announced that Fujian Deputy Governor Xu Gang is under investigation for suspected violations of discipline. It said his problems extended beyond corruption and included "political" matters. Sources separately indicated that the action could partly be related to his opposition to a controversial port project likely backed by Xi Jinping before he became President.
(Comment: Xu Gang is the wealthy coastal province's first big "tiger" to fall in Xi Jinping's intensifying crackdown on corruption.)
- On March 15, 2015, Xinhua quoted the Nei Mongol Autonomous Region Public Security Department as disclosing that Zhao Liping, the 64-year old former police chief of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, had been detained on suspecion of being involved in a murder case that happened in Chifeng City on March 13, 2015. Zhao Liping acted as the Region's police chief from 2005-2010 and was elected Deputy Chairman of the CPPCC Inner Mongolia Regional Committee in 2012.
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