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(Reuters)
- China's Three Gorges Corp, which built the world's biggest hydropower scheme,
has replaced its chairman and general manager, the company said, in the latest
major reshuffle of a state-owned firm as the government steps up a fight on
graft.
Some officials of Three Gorges, set up in
1993 to run the hydropower scheme, were guilty of nepotism, shady property
deals and dodgy bidding procedures, the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft
watchdog found in February.
The scandal has reignited public anger over
the $59-billion dam, which was funded by a special levy paid by all citizens.
Chairman Cao Guangjing has been removed
from his position and would be assigned another job, the company said in a
statement on Tuesday. It named Cao's replacement as Lu Chun, but gave no
further details.
Three Gorges will also replace its general
manager, Chen Fei, with Wang Lin, the firm cited Wang Jingqing, a deputy head
of the Organisation Department of the Communist Party's central committee, as
saying at a company meeting on March 24. It gave no details of Wang Lin's
background.
The company has not accused Cao and Chen of
any wrongdoing.
The probe, part of a nationwide
anti-corruption campaign led by President Xi Jinping, is still expanding and
there are no signs it will end soon.
Five former top executives of both companies
are being investigated for "serious discipline violations", a phrase
generally used to describe graft.
PetroChina removed Wei Zhigang, the former
head of the firm's Indonesian operations, from his post, amid an unspecified
official probe into the executive, three Chinese oil industry sources familiar
with the matter told Reuters in October.
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee and Li Hui;
Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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Dois executivos da ChinaThree Gorges afastados depois de investigação
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Chairman e director-geral da empresa chinesa, maior accionista da EDP,
relacionados com favorecimento na adjudicação de contratos.
Cao Guangjing
deixa o lugar de chairman debaixo de polémica
Dois executivos
de topo da China Three Gorges, que controla a EDP, foram afastados da empresa
depois de uma investigação do Partido Comunista Chinês.
A saída de Cao
Guangjing do cargo de chairman já tinha sido anunciada terça-feira. O gestor,
que esteve em Portugal para anunciar a participação accionista na EDP, foi
nomeado vice-governador da província de Hubei. Hoje soube-se que o
director-geral, Chen Fei, também foi afastado.
Sem adiantar
detalhes, a empresa anunciou nesta quarta-feira que o cargo de chairman será
ocupado por Lu Chun. O director-geral passará a ser Wang Lin, avançou Wang
Jingqing, responsável do departamento de organização do partido comunista, de
acordo com a Reuters.
A China Three
Gorges não acusou os dois executivos de terem cometido qualquer crime. Contudo,
a agência Bloomberg refere que a saída dos gestores acontece depois de uma
investigação governamental que detectou favorecimentos na adjudicação de
contratos de construção.
Ao que tudo
indica, alguns gestores da empresa compraram apartamentos e automóveis de
valores acima do que é autorizado pela empresa. Em causa também está o
envolvimento de amigos e familiares em projectos.
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