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Beijing

Three senior SOE officials probed

Three senior officials of State-owned enterprises CNOOC, China Mobile and China Unicom have been charged with accepting bribes in separate cases, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Thursday. The three are Wu Zhenfang, former deputy general manager of China National Offshore Oil Corp; Zong Xinhua, former general manager of the information technology and e-commerce department of China Unicom; and Li Dachuan, former board director and deputy general manager of China Mobile's Beijing branch.