Senior municipal legislator under probe

BEIJING -- A senior legislator in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, has been put under investigation for suspected severe violations of Party discipline and laws, an official statement said Wednesday.

Fu Zhongwei, director of the standing committee of the Shenyang municipal people's congress, is being investigated by the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, according to the statement.