BEIJING – A Chinese court says a corruption trial has started for the former chairman of the stated-owned parent of PetroChina Ltd., Asia's biggest oil producer.
Jiang Jiemin was chairman of the state-run China National Petroleum Corp., the target of a sweeping graft investigation amid a larger anti-corruption campaign that has netted top officials and others.
Hanjiang Intermediate People's Court in Hubei province said on its microblog Monday that Jiang is charged with taking bribes, possessing a large number of assets from unidentified sources and abusing his position at a state-owned enterprise.
A series of senior figures from the state-owned oil industry have been detained in the crackdown led by President Xi Jinping that appears to be aimed at tightening central control over PetroChina and other powerful state companies.
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