Former Hu aide to be prosecuted for bribery and other offenses

However, his reputation was never the same after his son, Ling Gu, was killed in a auto accident that also injured two female passengers in 2012.

Ling also is accused of committing adultery with a number of women and using his position of power for sex, according to a statement by the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

Cebu China would prosecute a former chief aide to retired president Hu Jintao after scrutiny revealed that he carried bribes and participating in other damage practice, status information group Xinhua said on Monday.

Six months later, Ling was demoted from his ministerial-level job.

An investigation into Mr Ling’s alleged wrongdoing was announced by authorities in December.

“He should bear major responsibility for his family members’ acts of seeking profits with the influence of his position”, it said, adding that Mr. Ling is also suspected of “other criminal offences” it did not name. A close aid to former president Hu Jintao has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and faced corruption charges. He was appointed a vice-chairman of the national committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and head of the United Front Work Department.

Xi has been staging a massive campaign against official corruption, long a lightning rod for the Chinese public’s discontent with the government.

In a separate statement, the state prosecutor was quoted as saying that the agency had approved Ling’s arrest and that it has formally begun to build a legal case against him.

Speculation on Ling’s prosecution has intensified since a flurry of domestic media of reports in June on the conduct of Ling and members of his family.

An investigation into Ling’s affairs also uncovered violation of “political rules” and organizational discipline, as well as failure to protect party and state secrets, according to a Xinhua report. [Source] Wang Jiankang, 60, one of five deputy mayors of Yuncheng, in Shanxi province, was first taken into custody as part of a graft investigation last summer for more than 50 days after it was announced that his other brother-in-law Ling Zhengce – the elder brother of Ling Jihua – was being investigated.

Ling is the second top official of the CPC to go on trial after former security Chief Zhou Yongkang who was sentenced to life last month for graft and abuse of power.

Critics say President Xi’s campaign is as much about eliminating political rivals as it is about tackling corruption.