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China continues anti-corruption blitz with arrest of Guangzhou airport executive
December 1st 2015
Mainland China’s anti-corruption investigators have notched up several high-ranking scalps at China’s airlines and airports in the last 12 months. Read More » All of those arrested, or “disappeared”, were charged with corruption, officially described on the Mainland as “violations of discipline”. Most notable of those no longer in their positions are China Southern Airlines’ chairman, Si Xianmin, and the deputy head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), Zhou Laizhen. At press time, the deputy general manager of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Xu Xiangdong, was dismissed from his job for “serious violations of discipline”.
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Apart from Si, Xu and Zhou, other powerful Mainland aviation personalities no longer enjoying their liberty include the former president of the Guangzhou Airport Authority, Liu Zijing; the forced resignation, for alleged crimes of corruption, of Beijing Capital Airport general manager, Shi Boli; the director of the CAAC’s Operations Management Centre, Wang Liya, and the deputy general manager of China Southern Airlines, Liu Xian. Earlier this year, five senior directors at China Southern were relieved of their responsibilities at the airline. Chief financial officer, Xu Jiebo, and deputy managers, Liu Qian, Tian Xiaodong, Zhou Yuehai and Chen Gang, were charged with bribery as a result of a year-long investigation at China’s largest carrier by fleet numbers.
