Chinese police raid home of senior military general for graft

In the biggest military corruption in China in recent years, police have raided the home of a disgraced senior military general for owning dozens of houses and gold statues.
Properties and gold statues found in the home of Lt Gen Gu Junshan, former deputy head of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) general logistics department, were confiscated, media here reported.
Gu had stepped down from the post in February 2012 as an anti-corruption probe has been instituted against him.
Gu, who was once in charge of the army's infrastructure constructions, obtained huge economic interests by seeking kickbacks in the sale of land owned by the military, reports said.

News portal caixin.Com said Gu owns dozens of properties in Beijing while Gu's brother, who owns plants to produce military supplies, had built seven villas for the family in their hometown in Puyang, Henan Province.
"Gu's compound in downtown Puyang, which occupies nearly a hectare of land, was built to imitate the Forbidden City and dubbed the General's Residence," state-run Global Times reported.

During a search of Gu's Puyang villa a year ago, a golden statue of Mao Zedong, a golden washbasin, a golden statue of ship and boxes of Moutai were found.
Gu's alleged corruption prompted public attention toward graft in the country's military, which is considered a tricky issue due to the limited information from authorities.

The raid came as President Xi Jinping announced a series of measures to curtail corruption in the ranks of the PLA by banning use of luxury cars and banquets. A new order mandated the military to use locally made cars instead of foreign luxury brands like Benz, Audi and Toyota.
In a separate scandal, an official of the Communist Party in Shaanxi province was suspended after a series of photos showing him naked in bed with a woman were posted online by a woman claiming to be his former girlfriend.
Qin Guogang, 56, deputy principal of Shaanxi Provincial Party School was suspended yesterday and investigation launched, state-run China Daily reported.

The woman, a 35-year-old single mother, claimed that Qin told her he was single and that he would marry her. When that turned out to be false, they quarrelled.
She claimed to have been beaten by Qin and his wife, her lawyer was quoted as saying by the state media.
Several Chinese officials were suspended and punished last year following a series of sex scandals.