Sunday, June 17, 2018

Corruption In China's Aircraft Carrier Shipbuilder?

China's anti-graft agency has launched a probe against the general manager of the state-owned firm responsible for building aircraft carriers.PHOTO: REUTERS

SCMP: Man behind China’s new aircraft carrier detained in corruption investigation

Sun Bo, general manager of China Shipbuilding Industry Corp, suspected of serious violations of law, party discipline, watchdog says

The deputy head of the shipbuilder developing China’s first home-grown aircraft carrier has been detained on suspicion of disciplinary violations, the usual euphemism for corruption.

Sun Bo, general manager of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), is suspected of serious violations of the law and party discipline, the National Supervisory Commission said in a brief statement issued on Saturday night.

The inquiry comes as President Xi Jinping is pushing for China to modernise its navy and become a major maritime power.

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Update: Manager of China aircraft carrier builder under graft probe (Straits Times/AFP)

WNU editor: For someone like him to be arrested for corruption .... he must have really irked some people.

1 comment:

jac said...

We shall never know the truth. Xi doesn't like the reality is not going his way, and because he cannot punish the reality he punish the man.