Ex-Senior Provincial Official Stung in China’s Sweeping Corruption Probe

What’s new: China’s top graft busters have launched an investigation into former deputy head of the Sichuan provincial political advisory body Yang Kening, following corruption probes into several officials who worked with him.

Yang is suspected of “serious violations of (Communist Party) discipline and law” — a common euphemism for corruption — the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a one-line statement Thursday.