A fondness for golf was one reason for the downfall of a former senior official of a large state-owned Chinese company who was expelled from the Communist Party last month for corruption, the main graft-busting agency said on Thursday. Dozens of senior officials have been jailed for corruption since President Xi Jinping assumed office three years ago and launched a renewed push against the problem, warning it was so severe it could affect the party's grip on power. Wu Shuyuan was a deputy general manager at BENEFO Corp, a mechanical engineering company based in the northern port city of Tianjin, until he was handed over to prosecutors in February following a party-led probe into suspected graft.
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