Top Tibetan lawmaker sacked, expelled from CPC for graft

A senior Tibetan legislator has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party of China and dismissed from public office for alleged corruption and placed under 'coercive measures', state media reported today.
Le Dake was found to have accepted bribes and taken advantage of his post to seek benefits for others, according to a statement issued by the Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) after an internal probe.
Le is a former deputy head of the Standing Committee of the regional People's Congress in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
Xinhua news agency, quoting the CCDI statement said that Le violated the Party's code of conduct, interfered with the investigation, and traded power and money for sex.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate announced that it had launched an investigation into Le, and that he had been placed under 'coercive measures'.
Coercive measures can include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest.
Hundreds of officials including some top CPC leaders have been punished in the anti-graft campaign carried out by President Xi Jinping since he took power in 2013. Xi is also General Secretary of the Communist Party.