The fall of counter-intelligence chief
China is investigating one of its top spy chiefs for corruption, the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Friday, signalling that the boldest crackdown on corruption in decades has spilled over into its powerful intelligence apparatus.
Ma Jian, a vice minister at China's Ministry of State
Security, is the most senior security official to be investigated since former
domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal last July.
The investigation into Ma could lead to a shake-up in
China's powerful state security ministry, a KGB-like operation that spies on
its citizens and foreigners domestically and internationally.Several of Ma's men are also being questioned to
assist with the investigation, a source with ties to the leadership told
Reuters, without giving further details.
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