China investigates retired top media censor
The probe adds Cai Fuchao to a corruption campaign that has already led to scores of senior official purges across China’s bureaucracy.
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Former Top Chinese Media Regulator Investigated Eight Years After Retirement
Former Top Chinese Media Regulator Investigated Eight Years After Retirement - Cai Fuchao, who built a reputation as a hard-hitting investigative reporter before rising to the peak of the country's publicity apparatus, is suspected of serious legal and disciplinary violations
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China investigates retired top media censor
BEIJING: China's anti-graft watchdog announced investigations on Wednesday (Jul 15) into Cai Fuchao, who was in charge of ensuring media coverage aligned with Communist Party doctrine in the 2010s, over "suspected severe violations of discipline and laws".As chief of China's press and broadcaster administrato
China has announced it is considering disciplinary action and a supervisory investigation against Cai Fuchao, former Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China.
Cai Fuchao was the head of the State Press, Publications, Radio, Film and Television Administration.
Eight years after his retirement, Cai Fuchao, former deputy minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and former director of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (ministerial level), was dismissed from his post.
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