BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Zhou Benshun, former Party chief of north China's Hebei Province, has been charged with taking bribes, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Sunday.
Xiamen Municipal People's Procuratorate filed the lawsuit against Zhou at Xiamen Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Fujian Province after the SPP finished its investigation and transferred the case to Fujian.
According to the indictment, Zhou sought illegal interests for others and illegally accepted a huge amount of assets by taking advantage of his posts as the chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Shaoyang Municipal Committee, member of the standing committee of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, secretary general of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of CPC Central Committee and Party chief of Hebei Province.
Zhou was expelled from the CPC and dismissed from public office in October last year.
