Detention of China Telecom Boss Linked to Time at Different Firm

(Beijing) – The head of the country's second largest telecom firm by number of subscribers has been taken into custody, and one person close to the investigation say it has to do with problems during his time at another telecoms giant.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Communist Party's anti-graft agency, published a statement on December 27 that said Chang Xiaobing, the chairman and party boss of state-run China Telecom, was being probed for "serious violations of party discipline," a euphemism for graft.