In the latest shake-up of China’s military in years, nine senior officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China’s Ministry of National Defense announced Friday.
The ministry said that the nine, including one of the country’s two vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission (CMC), were expelled for “disciplinary violations and allegedly serious duty-related crimes.”
Zhang Xiaogang, the ministry’s spokesman, said in a statement that an investigation uncovered crimes involving “huge amounts” of illicit gains with an “extremely serious nature and egregious impact.” Their cases have been transferred to military prosecutors following their expulsion from the CCP….
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