A high-ranking Chinese government official has been relieved of his post for what the government termed “superstitious” behavior and immoral activities, including “trading power for sex and money,” reported the Macau Daily Times.
Chen Shulong abused his power to seek “huge profits,” contends a statement from the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The former vice governor of eastern China’s Anhui Province had been under investigation since November.
“As a high-level official, Chen was politically clinging to power, economically insatiable and morally bankrupt,” said the statement from the government watchdog, cited in a report from the Xinhua news agency. “Even after the 18th CPC National Congress, he still showed no sign of restraint and his wrongdoings were of a grave nature.”
Chen’s illegal gains will be confiscated and his case transferred to the judiciary, according to the report.
