Zhou Yongkang was one of the nine most senior politicians in China until 2012, but has now fallen from grace. After an investigation by the Communist Party for a "serious disciplinary violation", a term usually used to refer to corruption, he was eventually expelled from the party in December 2014 and arrested. Many of his aides and close associates have already been sacked or investigated for allegedly breaching party discipline and other misdemeanours in recent months. Mr Zhou rose from a technician in an oil field in the 1960s to become the man in charge of China's vast security apparatus. His downfall illustrates once again Chinese leader Xi Jinping's determination to…
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