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• China jails former security chief for life after secret trial

  China sentenced its powerful former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang to life in jail on Thursday, after he was found guilty at a secret trial of bribery, leaking state secrets and abuse of power, in China's most sensational graft scandal in 70 years.

• China executes businessman linked to former security tsar

  Chinese authorities on Monday executed a former mining tycoon connected to the eldest son of retired domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, himself the focus of a high-profile corruption investigation, state media reported.

• China says ousted security tsar's influence corrupted others

  China's domestic security chief said his disgraced predecessor, Zhou Yongkang, led many others astray, alluding to a widening crackdown on Zhou's friends and associates, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday.

• China arrests ex-security chief for corruption, leaking secrets

  Chinese authorities have arrested former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang and expelled him from the ruling Communist Party, accusing him of crimes ranging from accepting bribes to leaking state secrets and setting the stage for his trial.

• China probes 'five networks' of disgraced ex-security chief: People's Daily

  An investigation into China's former domestic security chief is probing five different networks, the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party said on Friday, naming senior figures it said may have benefited from his alleged corruption.

• China likely to expel disgraced security chief from party: sources

  China's disgraced former domestic security chief, Zhou Yongkang, looks set to be expelled from the ruling Communist Party at a key meeting next week, sources said, possibly paving the way for his formal prosecution.

• China's top judge lauds Zhou corruption probe: state media

  China's top judge has said the ruling Communist Party's decision to investigate former senior leader Zhou Yongkang demonstrates clearly that no party member is above the law, the semi-official China News Service reported.

• Family members of former top Chinese government official under scrutiny over corruption charges

  According to multiple reports cited by The Global Times, the brother and his wife, and the son of former Political Bureau Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee member Zhou Yongkang are being investigated for alleged corruption in China.

• China probes one-time Zhou Yongkang aide over 'serious discipline and law violations'

  Bloomberg said that Ji Wenlin would be the latest government official under investigation by the Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in relation to the broader probe launched on former senior member Zhou Yongkang of the mainland's Politburo Standing Committee.