Commentary In the eight years since taking office, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has purged hundreds of corrupt officials. Most of the high-level officials who were arrested were loyal to former leader Jiang Zemin. The following are former high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members who have taken bribes or embezzled more than 100 million yuan ($15.35 million). The information is based on government data and the actual figures are believed to be even higher. Zhou Yongkang Zhou Yongkang was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CCP and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Committee. He was in charge of the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Procuratorate. Zhou is a crony of the former CCP dictator Jiang Zemin, and one of the agents placed at the highest level of the CCP after Jiang retired. Zhou retired in November 2012. On …