China’s top anti-graft body recently announced that three of its own high-ranking officials are placed under investigation for “violations of disciplines and law.”
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) ensures that officials toe the Party line, stay loyal to the top Party leadership, and abide by the Party’s rules. However, CCP leader Xi Jinping has used the agency to purge his political opponents under his anti-corruption campaign. 
From May 30 to June 25, the CCDI probed three senior officials: Hao Zongqiang, deputy director of the propaganda department of the National Commission of Supervision (NCS), a supervisory arm under the CDIC; Liu Ran, deputy director of the Second Supervision and Inspection Office of NCS; Cui Yunan, senior researcher of the Thirteenth Review and Investigation Office….