The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has announced that veteran shipbuilding executive Sun Bo is under "disciplinary review and monitoring investigation" for alleged "suspected serious violations of laws and regulations".
Sun Bo, 56, trained as an engineer at Dalian Institute of Technology and spent his career with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corp (DSIC) and related entities until being promoted in 2009 to a management role in CSIC, the northern group of major government owned state shipyards.
Since 2015, Sun has served in the triple position of general manager and director of CSIC and deputy secretary of its Party group.
Sun's boss, CSIC chairman Hu Wenming, is the former head of CSIC's southern rival, China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), and has long been tipped to lead an expected merger of the two huge shipbuilding groups.
The announcement of Sun's investigation mentions no specific allegations or suspicions. "Serious violations" is a standard euphemism for corruption in such announcements.
The Beijing based CCDI is the secretive organ of the Communist Party of China (CPC) that investigates government and party officials as part of chairman Xi Jinping's anti-corruption purge.
Under the "shuanggui" or "double assignment" system, accused Party members are confined in undisclosed locations without legal counsel or visitors for investigation by CCDI officers, and later handed over to China's court system for formal criminal prosecution.
