CPC expels senior officials for graft

Wang Xiaolin, deputy head of the National Energy Administration, was removed from office and expelled from the Communist Party of China for serious disciplinary violations, including corruption, China's top anti-graft watchdog said in a statement on Thursday.

Wang accepted large bribes and abused his positions to benefit other people and companies in return for payoffs, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

He also breached Party rules in illegally inquiring about discipline inspections, taking cash and other gifts, playing golf, taking part in banquets paid for by others and illegally intervening in judicial activities, the CCDI said.