What’s new: Wang Dawei, deputy governor and police chief of northeast China’s Liaoning province, was placed under investigation by the country’s top anti-graft agency.
Wang, 57, has been the Communist Party chief of the rustbelt province’s public security department since 2013. He became a deputy governor in 2017.
Wang made his last public appearance Feb. 25 when local media reported his attendance at a meeting in the provincial capital Shenyang, discussing a crackdown on internet and telecom fraud.
The context: Wang is the third head of Liaoning’s provincial public security department to have fallen under graft investigation since 2002, following his predecessors Li Wenxi and Xue Heng.
China’s anti-corruption crackdown has rocked the country’s police system since 2017, bringing down 11 senior officials including a former vice public security minister and Interpol President Meng Hongwei.
Wang held various senior posts in the neighboring Heilongjiang province before he was transferred to Liaoning in 2013.
Contact reporter Han Wei (weihan@caixin.com) and editor Bob Simison (bob.simison@caixin.com)
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