Top Chinese ex-official expelled from Communist party in latest purge
by Vincent Ni, China affairs correspondent from on (#5XQ39)
Fu Zhenghua had himself helped bring down country's former security chief for corruption
Beijing has expelled its high-profile former justice minister and deputy police chief from the ruling Communist party, denouncing him as being extremely despicable" and accusing him of befriending political frauds".
Fu Zhenghua - who had reportedly helped bring down China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang a few years ago - has been removed from public office over serious violations of party discipline and laws, said the state news agency Xinhua in a brief announcement that attributed the decisions to Beijing's top anti-graft body.
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