Former Shanghai Party Chief Chen Liangyu was stripped of his last official post as deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, for serious violation of Party disciplines, on Thursday.
Shanghai Municipal People's Congress decided to remove him from his position as NPC deputy in July and the 29th session of the NPC Standing Committee approved the decision on Thursday.
Chen has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from all government posts and is being detained, awaiting for trial.
The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection started an investigation into Chen's case in September last year.
Earlier reports said more than 100 investigators from Beijing had gone to Shanghai to probe allegations of corruption when money was siphoned off Shanghai's social security system, which manages more than 10 billion yuan (1.25 billion dollars) in funds.
Chen, born in 1946, was the secretary of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee when the corruption scandal broke out.
Duan Yihe, former chairman of the Standing Committee of Jinan Municipal People's Congress of Shandong Province, who was sentenced to death for murdering his mistress, was also expelled from the country's top legislative body.
The memberships of two other lawmakers, Sun Shengchang, former mayor of Qitaihe of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, and Bao Jianmin, former head of Henan Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau, were also kicked out of the legislature because of graft charges.
During the past four years, at least 24 NPC deputies were expelled from the national parliament for graft and other law and discipline breaches, including former deputy commander of the navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Wang Shouye.
The current NPC has nearly 3,000 deputies, who hold a five-year tenure.
Source: Xinhua
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