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Three local officials arrested for graft

Xinhua, August 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three officials from China's Sichuan and Hunan provinces have been arrested on suspicion of corruption, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Thursday.

They include Li Kunxue, former Communist Party deputy secretary of Chengdu, capital of the southwestern Sichuan Province; Wei Changping, former vice mayor of Yibin City in Sichuan; and Pi Lin, former general manager of the Hunan Daily Group.

All three are suspected of taking bribes, the SPP said, adding an investigation into their cases is currently under way. Endi