FILE - In this Monday, April 7, 2008 file photo, Sinopec President Wang Tianpu attends a news conference announcing the firm's annual results in Hong Kong. China's ruling Communist Party said Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, that it is stripping Wang, the former general manager of the country's largest oil refiner, of party membership and handing him over to prosecutors after an internal investigation found evidence of corruption. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File) (The Associated Press)
BEIJING – China's ruling Communist Party says it is stripping the former general manager of the country's largest oil refiner of party membership and handing him over to prosecutors after an internal investigation found evidence of corruption.
The party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Friday that Wang Tianpu violated the party's political rules and discipline by taking bribes, using his position to seek benefits for relatives and illegally taking possession of public goods.
Wang was put under investigation in April. Earlier, he was penalized over a November 2013 pipeline explosion that killed 62 people in the eastern port city of Qingdao.
China's state-dominated energy industry has come under special scrutiny amid President Xi Jinping's wide-ranging anti-graft crackdown.
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