A total of 17 senior ministerial-level officials and two national-level leaders had been probed on corruption allegations amid the strengthened anti-graft campaign by July 12.
Veteran officer 18th senior official investigated this year
The first round of inspections uncovered corruption in 11 local government bodies, a ministry, a major State-owned enterprise and a university.
Yang Gang, formerly a national political advisor, is being investigated for allegedly taking bribes, according to a Friday statement from the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Former vice governor of south China's Hainan province Ji Wenlin is under investigation for allegedly taking bribes.
Tan Hong, a former senior officer in the guard bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, is being investigated for alleged involvement in bribery.
Three former senior officials from Yunnan, Jiangxi and Qinghai provinces, respectively, were stripped of Party membership for discipline violations.
A senior military official has called for more anti-graft inspections in the army to focus on high-ranking officials.
A former senior official in Central China's Hunan province has been expelled from the Communist Party of China for corrupt activities, according to the country's top anti-graft watchdog.
Yang Baohua, a former senior political advisor of central China's Hunan Province, had been stripped of Party membership for serious discipline and law violation, the discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Tuesday.
Li Dongsheng, former vice-minister of public security, has been investigated by the top prosecuting department on suspicion of accepting bribes, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Monday.
More than 1,300 government officials in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region were punished in the first half of 2014 for violating frugality rules, the country's top anti-graft watchdog announced.
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