Nur Bekri, the former head of China’s National Energy Administration (NEA), has been arrested for corruption, the country’s central government announced last Saturday. The 58-year-old Bekri is the second NEA director arrested since 2014, after Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a wide-ranging anticorruption campaign. Former NEA head Liu Tienan was sentenced to life imprisonment in December that year (IOD Sep.25’14).
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