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How high-level Chinese officials are taken down

By Gillian Wong
Published July 30, 2014 10:41am ET
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How high-level Chinese officials are taken down
HOLD FOR USE WITH CHINA ANATOMY OF A TAKEDOWN In this photo taken Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012, Zhou Yongkang then Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of security, raises his hand to show approval for a work report during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. China’s ruling Communist Party has announced July 29, 2014 an investigation into the former security chief Zhou Yongkang, a move that usually paves the way for criminal prosecution. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) | Lee Jin-man

BEIJING (AP) — The investigation into China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang could pave the way for him to stand trial as the most senior politician ever prosecuted for graft. It’s hard to predict how his case will be handled in the opaque, secretive world of Chinese politics, but here’s how such prosecutions tend to play out, though not necessarily always in this sequence:

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