Sisters in the Shadows of a Shanxi Graft Probe

Jin Daoming

(Beijing)—Two sisters with business savvy and important friends in high places are now the standout figures in the mysterious case of a former Shanxi Province government official, Jin Daoming, charged with corruption.

Few details of the Jin case have emerged since he was suddenly kicked out of the provincial branch of the National People's Congress in March. His Beijing bosses with the party's Central Discipline Inspection Commission said on February 27 he was charged with "serious violation of 'party discipline,'" a euphemism for corruption.