BEIJING, April 29 -- Shanghai prosecutors opened an investigation into Jiang Xiefu, former district Party chief and city lawmaker, for allegedly taking bribes, said the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) Wednesday.
Jiang was party chief of Baoshan District of Shanghai and a member of the standing committee of the Shanghai municipal people's congress, the city legislature.
He has been placed under compulsory measures, according to the SPP, though it did not specify which measures had been taken.
Such measures generally include summons by force, bail residential surveillance, detention and arrest.
J-11 fighters in air exercise
Beauties dancing on the rings
Attendants-to-be join Mr. & Miss Campus Contest
Beijing's toughest anti-smoking law takes effect
Family lives in cave for about 50 years in SW China
PLA soldiers operating vehicle-mounted guns in drill
Blind carpenter in E China's Jiangxi
China hosts overseas disaster relief exercise for the first time
20 pairs of twins who will become flight attendants in Sichuan
Obama is sowing discontent in S.China Sea
Rescuers work through night to reach cruise ship survivors
Driving through limbo
Facing down MERSDay|Week
