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Tibetan Corruption Probe

May 19, 2020;

Chinese officials are reported to have launched an investigation into Tashi Gyatso, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese regional government in Tibet. Gyatso, who is also “a member of Tibet’s leading Communist Party members” group is “suspected [of] severe violations of discipline and law”, according to the Tibet Discipline Inspection and Supervision Network. Chinese state media reports that over 555,000 anti-corruption cases were filed against government officials in 2019 alone.

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