Another Railway Official Held For Graft Inquiry

(Beijing)–A senior executive at the contractor that built most of China's high-speed rail network has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes, the latest railway official to be hit by a corruption scandal.

Liu Zhiyuan, the general manager of China CREC Railway Electrification Bureau Group Co. (EEB), a subsidiary of state-owned China Railway Engineering Corp, was detained by police on May 21, a source closed to the situation said. Liu was taken into custody after a ceremony at a construction site for the Beijing-Shijiazhuang passenger line.