FILE - The then-Bank of China chairman, Liu Liange, arrives on the occasion of the Italy-China Financial forum, at Palazzo Marino town hall, in Milan, Italy, on July 10, 2019. The former chairman of Bank of China Ltd., one of the country's four major state-owned lenders, is under investigation by the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption agency, state TV reported Friday, March 31, 2023, adding to a string of high-level financial figures ensnared in a marathon crackdown. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)FILE - Construction workers clear debris from the facade of a Bank of China building being renovated in Beijing on April 25, 2017. A former chairman of Bank of China Ltd., one of the country's four major state-owned lenders, is under investigation by the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption agency, state TV reported Friday, March 31, 2023, adding to a string of high-level financial figures ensnared in a marathon crackdown. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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FILE - The then-Bank of China chairman, Liu Liange, arrives on the occasion of the Italy-China Financial forum, at Palazzo Marino town hall, in Milan, Italy, on July 10, 2019. The former chairman of Bank of China Ltd., one of the country's four major state-owned lenders, is under investigation by the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption agency, state TV reported Friday, March 31, 2023, adding to a string of high-level financial figures ensnared in a marathon crackdown. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
BEIJING – A former chairman of Bank of China Ltd., one of the country's four major state-owned lenders, is under investigation by the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption agency, state TV reported Friday, adding to a string of high-level financial figures ensnared in a marathon crackdown.
Liu Liange, who also is a former party secretary of the bank, is suspected of “serious disciplinary violations,” China Central Television said on its website. The one-sentence report gave no details of the allegations against Liu.
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