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Wu Daoming Expelled From Communist Party as Bribery Case Goes to Prosecutors

Wu Daoming, former deputy director of Guizhou Prison Administration Bureau, expelled from Communist Party

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What changed

Wu Daoming, a former deputy director of the Guizhou Prison Administration Bureau and former general manager of Guizhou Qianxin Enterprise Group, has been expelled from the Communist Party.

Authorities also cancelled his benefits, ordered the recovery of illicit gains and transferred his suspected bribery case to prosecutors. The allegations include taking gifts and banquets, using official relationships for relatives’ benefit, risking state-asset losses, interfering in judicial activity and helping others win engineering projects and secure payments.

Why it matters

This moves the case beyond internal party discipline. Wu now faces prosecutorial review over suspected criminal conduct, with related property transferred alongside the case.

The allegations reach across prison administration, a state-linked enterprise and project contracting. That matters because the claimed misconduct was not limited to personal benefits: it allegedly involved decisions over public assets, engineering work and government payments.

The investigation also says the conduct continued after the 18th Party Congress. The next meaningful step is therefore legal, not ceremonial: prosecutors must decide how the suspected bribery case proceeds. No alleged amount, prosecutorial decision or court outcome has been disclosed.

Sources (3)
  1. 中新网时政新闻Wu Daoming, former deputy director of Guizhou Prison Administration Bureau, expelled from Communist Party
  2. 中新网时政新闻Du Haimin, former Qinghai public security deputy chief and party committee member, expelled from Communist Party
  3. 中新网时政新闻Wu Hao, former deputy Party secretary and director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and Innovation Center, expelled from the Party and public office over serious disciplinary and legal violations

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