A FORMER director of the Shenzhen Municipal Water Resources Bureau faced corruption charges.

    Zhang Qiwen, a former director at the water resources bureau and a member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the city’s political advisory body, was removed from his post and expelled from the Party for alleged corruption.

    Zhang’s illegal income has been confiscated.

    Zhang is the third director of the water resources bureau to be probed in the past three years.

    In 2005, Huang Tianyuan was probed and replaced by Jiang Zunyu, who was later replaced by Zhang Qiwen in August 2009. Jiang was probed in October 2014 for discipline violations committed not during his tenure at the water resources bureau.

    Approved by the city’s Party committee, the Party’s disciplinary inspection commission investigated Zhang’s violations and the judicial departments also investigated Zhang, the commission said on its official website Friday.

    An investigation showed Zhang, born in 1957 and a native of Zijin in Guangdong Province, violated Party rules by withholding information about his huge personal assets from the Party, allegedly taking bribes and abusing power through granting promotions and accepting bribes when contracting projects.

    According to Party regulations, Party officials must truthfully report personal information in marriage, passports, employment of children and spouses overseas. They need to declare their property including apartments, cars, bank deposits, stocks and other investments.

    Zhang was investigated July 29, five days after he retired from the post as director of the city’s water resources bureau. He was an elected member of the standing committee of the city’s political advisory body.

    Previously, Zhang had served as chief of the Shenzhen Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, head of the Yantian District Government, and chief of the city’s quality supervision bureau before becoming head of city’s water resources bureau. (Han Ximin)