China’s former top internet regulator became the first senior official put under investigation for corruption since President Xi Jinping secured a second term in office during a leadership reshuffle last month.
Lu Wei, who ran the Cyberspace Administration of China since its launch in 2014 to last year, is suspected of “serious violations of discipline,” according to a brief statement released Tuesday night on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s top graft-busting agency. The phrase typically refers to corruption and abuses of power.
