Former senior provincial official arrested for suspected bribery

BEIJING -- Qian Yin'an, a senior official in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, was arrested for suspected bribe taking, according to a decision by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP).

Qian was a former member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

His case was transferred to procurators for prosecution after an investigation against him by the National Supervisory Commission concluded, the SPP said in a Tuesday statement.

The handling of the case is still underway, according to the SPP.