Exclusive | Man who ran world’s largest army charged with taking US$12.3 million worth of bribes
Official figure just a small fraction of how much money China’s disgraced retired military chief Guo Boxiong actually received, source close to People’s Liberation Army reveals
China’s former top general who used to run the world’s largest army has been charged with taking bribes totalling 80 million yuan (HK$96 million), a source close to senior military officials told the South China Morning Post.
Guo Boxiong, the retired military chief of the People’s Liberation Army, had been under investigation for corruption since last year and was expelled from the Communist Party in July.
Guo, 74, a former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, is the highest-ranking military official to be netted in President Xi Jinping’s far-reaching corruption crackdown.
A former member of the party’s 25-man Politburo, Guo is also the highest-ranking general to face a graft charge since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
