A FORMER Shenzhen top law official who is under investigation for suspected corruption allegedly has a large amount of unaccountable assets, according to a senior official with the Party’s disciplinary inspection commission in Guangdong Province.

    At a panel discussion of the annual session of Guangdong Provincial Committee of China People’s Political Consultative Conference on Monday, Zhong Shijian, deputy chief of the disciplinary inspection commission, said that Jiang Zunyu, the former Party secretary of the Commission for Political and Law Affairs of the CPC Shenzhen Committee, had purchased 42 apartments for his family and owned other assets worth 200 million yuan (US$32.26 million), including stock shares, given by unspecified sources.

    Jiang was vice secretary general of the Shenzhen Municipal Government between 2001 and July 2005, and worked as Party chief and director of Shenzhen Water Resources Bureau from July 2005 to August 2009.

    He became Party chief of the CPC Longgang District Committee in October 2009, a vacancy left by Yu Weiliang, who was fired for corruption.

    In 2010, Jiang became a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shenzhen Committee, while he continued to work as the head of the Longgang District Party committee. In 2013, Jiang was appointed head of the Political and Law Affairs Commission of the Shenzhen CPC Committee.

    Jiang was put under investigation in October last year.

    According to Zhong, Guangdong’s anti-corruption watchdog probed 95 department-chief-level officials in 2014, 150 percent more than in 2013.

    (Han Ximin)