Ministry's chief engineer under investigation

BEIJING - The Communist Party's discipline inspection body is investigating the chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for an alleged serious violation of discipline, a spokesman of the ministry told China Daily on Thursday.

According to ministry spokesman Wang Lijian, the Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has recently taken away the chief engineer, Su Jinsheng, for investigation, without elaborating on charges or if anyone else was also involved.

However, another official with the ministry's publicity office, who only gave her surname as Zhang, said Su was "suspected of a serious violation of Party discipline" - which is usually law breaking as well.