If he goes to trial, Zhou Yongkang would be the highest-level official to be prosecuted since the 1981 treason trial of Mao Zedong’s wife and other members of the “Gang of Four,” who ...

Zhou Yongkang, China's top security official, attends a plenary session on the draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law as China's National People's Congress (NPC) takes place in Beijing ...

Former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang attends the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 14, 2012 Jason Lee / Reuters ...

Chinese authorities placed the feared ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang under formal arrest early Saturday to investigate his suspected crimes, including accepting bribes, adultery and leaking the ...

China's Politburo Standing Committee Member, Zhou Yongkang, waves to the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 22, 2007. REUTERS/Joe Chan (CHINA) Purchase Licensing Rights ...

Embattled former top Communist Zhou Yongkang rose through China's state oil industry to become the country's internal security chief -- and amassed so much power, according to analysts, that he ...

There have been rumors about a possible Zhou Yongkang investigation since 2012, ever since the scandal surrounding Bo Xilai erupted. Bo was a political ally of Zhou’s, and there were rumors that ...

BEIJING — Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least $14.5 billion from family members and associates of retired domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, who is at the center of China's ...

China's Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang gestures as he attends Hebei delegation discussion sessions of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing October 16, 2007.