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Senior Chongqing official under probe

Lu Kehua, former vice-mayor of Chongqing, is currently under investigation by the country's top anti-graft body on suspicion of severely violating Party disciplines and national laws. Lu, secretary of the commission for political and legal affairs in Chongqing and a member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, is being investigated by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision, according to a statement released on Monday. Born in October 1964, he began working at the Ministry of Housing and Rural-Urban Development. He was appointed vice-mayor of Chongqing in 2018.

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