HONG KONG, Dec 26 (Reuters) - China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers, said on Saturday its vice chairman Zhang Chunjiang is under investigation for breach of rules.
'Zhang Chunjiang, for personal reasons, has been involved in serious breach of rules,' China Mobile said in a statement, without elaborating on the nature of the alleged violation.
'At the moment the matter is being investigated by relevant departments,' the statement said.
Zhang is both vice chairman and an executive director of China Mobile, having joined the company's board in 2008.
His past posts include a number of high positions at China Netcom, a former leading fixed-line telecoms provider in China that got merged this year with China Unicom under a broad industry restructuring.
(Reporting by Doug Young; editing by Sue Thomas)
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Keywords: CHINAMOBILE/ZHANG
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'Zhang Chunjiang, for personal reasons, has been involved in serious breach of rules,' China Mobile said in a statement, without elaborating on the nature of the alleged violation.
'At the moment the matter is being investigated by relevant departments,' the statement said.
Zhang is both vice chairman and an executive director of China Mobile, having joined the company's board in 2008.
His past posts include a number of high positions at China Netcom, a former leading fixed-line telecoms provider in China that got merged this year with China Unicom under a broad industry restructuring.
(Reporting by Doug Young; editing by Sue Thomas)
((doug.young@thomsonreuters.com; +852 9411-7440)
Keywords: CHINAMOBILE/ZHANG
COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.