Former vice provincial governor arrested for bribery, embezzlement

BEIJING, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- A former vice governor of southwest China's Guizhou Province has been arrested for allegedly taking bribes and embezzlement, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Friday.

The decision was made after the National Supervisory Commission finished an investigation of Wang Xiaoguang and handed his case to the SPP, the SPP statement said.

Wang is also a former member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.