Exclusive | Top Chinese general linked to disgraced security tsar Zhou Yongkang arrested for corruption
Wang Jianping is the first serving officer of the rank to fall from grace since president embarked on campaign against graft in the military
General Wang Jianping, 62, deputy chief of the Joint Staff Department under the powerful Central Military Commission, was taken away in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Thursday afternoon, one of the sources said.
Wang’s wife; secretary; and former secretary, Su Haihui, now deputy director of the armed police’s training department; were also held. “Wang was arrested by military prosecutors in Chengdu while on an inspection trip. His wife and secretary were taken away in Beijing on Thursday,” the source said.
Wang is the first general still in active military service to be brought down since President Xi Jinping launched his massive crackdown against deep-rooted corruption in the military in 2013.
He is the second top general to be arrested for corruption in recent weeks. The first was General Tian Xiusi, a former political commissar of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force and a member of the party’s elite Central Committee.
