Former Top Tobacco Regulator Arrested for Bribery, Power Abuse

A former chief of China’s top tobacco regulator has been arrested and faces criminal charges as an anti-graft crackdown sweeps the country’s state-controlled tobacco industry.

China’s supreme procuratorate issued an arrest warrant for Ling Chengxing, former head of China’s State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA). He is facing prosecution for accepting bribes and abusing power, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said in a Tuesday statement.