The corruption investigations in China are expanding: According to a newspaper report, the former security chief of Beijing has now been arrested. He is said to have covered alleged violations of his superiors.

The Chinese authorities have a newspaper report now also arrested the security chief in the capital Beijing intensified fight against corruption.

In the background stood the ongoing investigation against the former national security chief Zhou Yongkang, reports the ” New York Times ” . The Beijing Liang Ke security chief was suspected of having supported the alleged crimes of his supreme masters . He was therefore arrested in January . State media on Friday had only reported that Liang had been relieved of his post , without giving reasons and details.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called widespread corruption by officials and politicians in the People’s Republic as a serious threat to the Communist Party. That’s why he reinforced the fight against corruption and abuse of power at all political levels . However, Beijing’s anti – corruption campaign, a highly selective matter and makes only a very limited group of people.

The 71- year-old Zhou is currently the highest-ranking politician accused, in this context. Zhou was responsible for domestic security and until his resignation last year a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo – the most powerful body in the communist country. Thus, the government breaks with the unwritten law that former members of the Committee shall be spared from investigation.

From 2007 to 2012 , Zhou controlled state security . In this time the arrests were Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo , the harassment of the Action artist Ai Weiwei, the blind civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng and hundreds of other human rights activists. But there is no evidence so far suggests that the investigations have anything to do with Zhou’s role as head of the state security and would thus be in the narrower sense politically motivated.

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