Senior Chinese officials are being briefed on a graft investigation into former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, implying a trial could be imminent, South China Morning Post reported, citing unnamed sources. The briefings were seen as a sign the case against Zhou, who was until late 2012 one of the nine most powerful officials in the Communist Party, could be announced soon. Zhou would be first current or retired member of the Politburo Standing Committee to be charged with financial crimes. Zhou was made the country’s police chief in 2003 and oversaw the entire legal and law enforcement system from 2007.
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