CHINA-ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN: MOSS VICE MINISTER MA JIAN
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China's financial news outlets Tencent, Caixin and Caijing last week alleged that 48-year old Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, controlling shareholder of Beijing Zenith Holdings and Beijing Pangu Investment, conspired with government officials - including former deputy spy chief Ma Jian who came under investigation for corruption in January - in his rise to riches. Guo Wengui told Hongkong's South China Morning Post that he had gone to New York for treatment of his leg. Mainland media had earlier reported that Guo Wengui had plotted the fall of former Beijing vice-mayor Liu Zhihua because he refused to help him recover the development rights to the Pangu Plaza project next to the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium in Beijing. The reports also said that Ma Jian, or his aide, had a role in a 2006 sex-tape scandal that brought down Liu Zhihua.
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