BEIJING: The vice president of China's highest court has been put under investigation, the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption agency said, the most senior member of the judiciary to be probed as part of a highly publicized anti-graft campaign.

Xi Xiaoming, 61, who joined the Supreme People's Court in 1982, is being probed for suspected "serious disciplinary violations and breaking the law", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a one line notice.

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