Senior provincial official in East China under investigation

BEIJING - Wang Like, a senior Party official in East China's Jiangsu province, is being investigated for suspected serious violations of Party disciplinary rules and laws, said the top anti-graft agency on Saturday.

Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the CPC's Jiangsu provincial committee for political and legal affairs, had turned himself in, said an official statement.

Wang is being investigated by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.