article_snippet.sent: Beijing (CNN)China's state prosecutors on Friday formally charged the country's former security czar with accepting bribes, making Former domestic security official ever to face corruption charges.
article_snippet.sent: However, the charge of leaking state secrets may allow authorities to shield certain legal proceedings from public view in His case.
article_snippet.sent: President Xi Jinping has been spearheading a massive anti-corruption campaign,  targeting both "tigers" and "flies" --  high-ranking, and low-level, officials.
article_snippet.sent: The important thing here is that President Xi Jinping has proven President Xi Jinping's powerful enough to break this taboo of never incriminating former Politburo Standing Committee members," longtime political analyst Willy Lam, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said last year, when the government revealed the government formal investigation into former top official Zhou Yongkang.
article_snippet.sent: The people being investigated for corruption are on the losing side of factional struggles," said Lam, who has predicted a suspended death sentence for former top official Zhou Yongkang.
highlights_snippet.sent: Former domestic security official is the most senior Chinese official to face corruption charges .