Former national political advisor under bribery probe

BEIJING -- Yang Gang, formerly a national political advisor, is being investigated for allegedly taking bribes, according to a Friday statement from the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Anti-graft crackdown

Yang, former deputy head of the Committee for Economic Affairs of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was previously stripped of his Communist Party of China (CPC) membership and his official post, said a statement released on July 11 from the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

The CCDI accused Yang of having taken advantage of his position to seek interests for others, taken huge bribes and committed adultery.