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Caixin uncovers property graft behind fallen Politburo member

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Those who illicitly profiteered from China’s property boom are firmly in the crosshairs of the Party’s anticorruption watchdog. One such figure is former Xinjiang Party chief Ma Xingrui, recently expelled from the Party for “rampant family corruption,” among a litany of graft charges.

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