Zhou Yongkang Used Start in Oil Industry to Rise to Public Security Czar

(Beijing) – Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the Communist Party's supreme decision-making body, has been the highest ranking party cadre to be a target of a corruption investigation.

The party's graft fighters announced the investigation into Zhou on July 29, after having rounded up a number of his allies in Sichuan Province and China National Petroleum Corp., where he used to work.