Commit suicide and call fortune teller: how graft accused met investigators

Updated: 2015-01-27 15:46

By Liu Jing(chinadaily.com.cn)

Commit suicide and call fortune teller: how graft accused met investigators

Yang Hongwei, former deputy Party chief of Chuxiong prefecture, attends a celebration dressed in national costume in April, 2008.[Photo/IC]

Paralyzed with fear

Yang Hongwei, former deputy Party chief of Chuxiong prefecture, Yunnan province, was reportedly hosting a meeting when officials from the provincial discipline inspection commission burst in and announced that he was under investigation on April 27, 2011.

Insiders said Yang was "paralyzed right away and carried out by four policemen".