BEIJING: China will launch a corruption investigation into former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, one of Beijing’s most powerful politicians of the last decade, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Friday citing unspecified sources.

The probe into Zhou, a recently retired member of the ruling Communist party’s Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), its highest-ranking body, was reported by the South China Morning Post, which cited “sources familiar with the leadership’s thinking.”

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