First senior official in Tibet held on corruption charges

A top legislator in the Tibet autonomous region has been held by the country's anti-graft watchdog on corruption charges. He is the first senior official to be investigated in the region since the nationwide campaign against corruption began in late 2012.

Le Dake, 55, deputy director of the people's congress in the region, is being investigated for alleged "serious violations of discipline and law", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on Friday.

Le, from Jiangxi province, spent most of his career in political and legal affairs departments in the province from 1976 to 2004 before he was appointed as chief of Tibet's State security department.