Beijing’s Top Health Official Sacked for Engaging in Lucrative Private Lending

Beijing’s top health official Yu Luming has been expelled from the Communist Party and dismissed from public office for obtaining large returns from private lending and other corrupt practices, according to a statement by the country’s main graft watchdog posted on Monday.

Yu, 60, who was head of Beijing’s Municipal Health Commission until his removal from the post in May, has been accused by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission of “serious violations of party discipline.”