Zhou was also a patron of Bo Xilai, a former a fast-rising political star who was jailed for graft Beijing CNN — At the height of his power, Zhou Yongkang controlled police forces, spy agencies ...

Zhou Yongkang is a former domestic security chief of China, making him the most powerful man to be investigated as part of President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.

Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the highest body in the Chinese Communist Party, is believed to be the subject of a corruption probe.

On April 3, Good Friday, Zhou Yongkang, former Politburo Standing Committee member and former secretary of the Central Politics and Law Commission, was officially indicted on charges of “bribery ...

Zhou Yongkang: An oil industry veteran before taking on senior positions in the government and the Communist Party, Mr. Zhou was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of bribe-taking ...

Zhou spent much of the last decade as one of China’s most powerful people, controlling every aspect of the domestic security apparatus and maintaining deep, lucrative ties to China’s oil sector.

The final fall of Zhou Yongkang was dramatic and exciting. Even after over two years of speculation, his formal indictment is big news. Never before has someone so highly ranked been treated this ...

The removal of China’s former internal security chief Zhou Yongkang from the Communist Party had been expected for some time. Expulsion is the party’s most serious public censure for ...