China Communist Party Expels Former Hu Jintao Aide on Bribes
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The Chinese Communist Party expelled a former top aide to retired President Hu Jintao and set in motion a criminal case against the last of a faction dubbed the “New Gang of Four.”
Ling Jihua, 58, who had served as Hu’s chief of staff, seriously violated party discipline and the law by taking “huge” bribes and obtaining “a large quantity of party and state core secrets,” the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing a meeting of the Central Committee’s Politburo. Ling also carried on sexual relations with many women, Xinhua said.