China probes former aide to ex-anti-corruption tsar

* Wang led ⁠the Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog during Xi Jinping's first term as China's top leader, ⁠overseeing one of the most sweeping corruption crackdowns in modern Chinese history. * Li was ​appointed the discipline chief of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in ⁠2011, before becoming director of the CCDI-based Office of the Central Leading Group for Inspection ⁠Work ​in 2013, public records show.

Li Xiaohong, a former ​senior Chinese anti-graft official, is "suspected of ​serious violations of discipline ‌and law" ​and is undergoing disciplinary review and probe, a statement from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection ‌showed on Tuesday. * Li's career spanned China's top anti-corruption agency, Beijing's municipal government as well as the Chinese securities regulator and brokerages, including posts as ‌chairman of China Securities and the now-defunct Huaxia Securities in the ‌early 2000s.

* Li, 73, was a senior aide to China's now-retired graft buster Wang Qishan, both while Wang was Beijing's mayor in the mid-2000s and at the CCDI in ⁠the ​2010s. * Wang led ⁠the Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog during Xi Jinping's first term as China's top leader, ⁠overseeing one of the most sweeping corruption crackdowns in modern Chinese history.

* Li was ​appointed the discipline chief of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in ⁠2011, before becoming director of the CCDI-based Office of the Central Leading Group for Inspection ⁠Work ​in 2013, public records show. * Another of Wang's former aides at CCDI, Dong Hong, who had also been a close associate ⁠of Li, was investigated in 2020.

* Dong was sentenced to death with ⁠reprieve in ⁠2022 for "illegally accepting money and property" worth more than 463 million yuan ($68.47 million) in total, state media reported. ($1 = ‌6.7624 ‌Chinese yuan renminbi)