China Police Chief Who Let Off Drunk Son Charged With Graft

The former police chief of a major city in northern China has been charged with corruption, state media said on Thursday, after he was sacked for allowing his drunk son to be set free despite having attacked a policeman. Li Yali was the top police officer in Taiyuan, which lies about 300 miles southwest of Beijing, until last year, when footage of his son's drunken violence went viral on the Internet. His son, Li Zhengyuan, was stopped on suspicion of driving under the influence in...

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