China probes former aide to ex-anti-corruption tsar

China Securities Co

02/06/2026 14:53

    BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters) - 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)

 (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom
Editing by Gareth Jones)