First probe into ex-rail minister complete
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Serious violations
Liu has been under investigation since February 2011, when he was removed from his post on suspicion of "serious disciplinary violations." He was expelled from the Party in May.
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Liu Zhijun |
The country's rapid railway network development slowed after the fall of Liu and the fatal bullet-train crash that killed 40 passengers in July last year in Wenzhou.
Liu, born in 1953 in central China's Hubei Province, began his career in 1972 as a railway worker and joined the Party a year later, according to his official biography.
Liu was appointed railway minister in 2003 and oversaw the expansion of high-speed railways with a total investment since 2004 reaching at least 2 trillion yuan.
It was during this period that Ding's Broad Union Group is said to have benefited from being the China's only producer and maintainer of train wheel sets, winning contracts worth more than 2 billion yuan, including 800 million yuan from construction of the Shanghai-Beijing route, the report said.
In 2008, she gained exclusive rights to operate advertising in all high-speed railway stations across the country.
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