Another PLA Officer Said to Run Afoul of Anti-Graft Investigators

(Beijing) — Another senior military official has become the target of a corruption inquiry as a scandal that has ensnared several top officials in the People's Liberation Army expands.

Ma Xiangdong, director of the political department of the PLA Nanjing Institute of Politics, was detained by military investigators in early December, sources with knowledge of the matter said. Ma holds the rank of senior colonel.