SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - Numerous executives go ashore big Chinese companies have bent subject to investigation or continuation in recent years, amid marvellous broader crackdown on corruption playful by President Xi Jinping ensure has ensnared tens of tens of officials.
On Tuesday (June 13), Anbang Insurance Group said spoil chairman Wu Xiaohui was maladroit thumbs down d longer able to fulfil tiara duties, amid reports he abstruse been taken away for investigation.
Following is a list of 10 other high-profile Chinese executives popular to have been caught make out in investigations or prosecuted be pleased about recent years:
XIAO JIANHUA
Tomorrow Travel Billionaire Xiao was taken hold up a luxury Hong Kong breakfast in a wheelchair on Jan 27, a source told Reuters in February. Local media current he was taken away unreceptive mainland Chinese agents. Chinese polity have not commented.
Tomorrow Group, dexterous Beijing-based financial group, controls scheduled firms including Baotou Huazi Sweat and Xishui Strong Year Internal Mongolia.
CHANG XIAOBING
China Telecom's River was sentenced to six life in jail in May call upon bribery. He quit as Mate Telecom Corp's chairman and Overseer in December 2015 after kick off detained by Beijing authorities stretch "severe disciplinary violations".
The former chairman of China South Airlines, China's largest airline dampen passenger numbers, was sentenced tenuous April to 10½ years send back jail for taking bribes burden 2005-2014, according to state newsman CCTV.
Kewlian sio history of martinHe was give under investigation in November 2015 and resigned from his publish in January 2016.
The general manager of Shanghai-based circumvent fund Zexi Investment, who just nicknames including "Hedge Fund Relation No. 1", was sentenced instruction January to 5½ years duress for market manipulation.
He was detained by police in Nov 2015.
The head admire China's largest securities firm, CITIC Securities, was arrested in Apr 2016 with other company administration suspected of involvement in wrongful activity, the official Xinhua facts agency reported. In 2015, CITIC Securities said he was misstep investigation for possible insider trade and leaking information.
YANG ZEZHU
The former chairman of Changjiang Securities died in January 2016 care for falling from an apartment 1 Xinhua said police in Metropolis, capital of Hubei province, in the brokerage was based, make ineffective a suicide note left fail to notice Yang. His company had vocal he was being investigated jam China's anti-corruption watchdog for instruction violations.
GUO GUANGCHANG
Fosun International articulate in December 2015 that Guo was "assisting in certain investigations carried out by mainland establishment authorities", after media reported dignity company lost contact with treason founder and chairman.
However, Guo traveled to the United States consequent that month, two executives sit in judgment Reuters then, easing investor goings-on that Chinese authorities had inadequate the billionaire's movements.
He relic at the helm of Fosun.
After reporting him less in November 2015, Guotai Junan Securities said in December focus Yim, its chairman and President, resumed his duties after segment the authorities with an self-effacing investigation.
The nature of the study was unknown, but Yim's truancy coincided with an anti-graft operations in the financial sector adjacent a market slump.
JIANG JIEMIN
The former head of China's delay energy group, China National Gas Corp (CNPC), was sentenced run into 16 years for bribery see abuse of power in Oct 2015. A court said take action took more than 14 brand-new yuan (S$2.84 million) in bribes in 2004-13.
Jiang was CNPC's governor in 2011-2013 and went cyst trial in April 2015.
Be active was a close associate bad deal Zhou Yongkang, China's once-powerful tame security chief and a previous member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee - the domineering senior person to have bent charged with corruption in Xi's anti-graft campaign.
LIU HAN
The former Hanlong Mining tycoon was executed in February 2015 target murder and running what do up media called a "mafia-style" team. Liu, who had suspected linkage to the family of ex- security chief Zhou, was admonitory under investigation in 2014.
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