THE People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is investigating 14 of its senior military officers, including the son of one of its former top generals, for suspected corruption, it was announced yesterday, the latest wave of China’s intensifying anti-graft campaign in the army.

    The Defense Ministry said one of the officers under investigation was Guo Zhenggang, the son of a former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission who retired in 2013.

    Guo Zhenggang, the deputy political commissar of the military in the eastern province of Zhejiang, was being investigated on suspicion of “violating the law,” the ministry said in a statement on its website, without elaborating. In China, “violating the law” is often a euphemism for corruption.

    Guo, 45, is also a major-general, according to the Global Times.

    The news came four months after one of China’s most senior former military officers, Xu Caihou, confessed to taking “massive” bribes.

    (SD-Agencies)