Zhou Yongkang has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and prosecutors have opened an investigation into his suspected crimes and arrested him.
China announced a major breakthrough in its Operation Fox Hunt on Thursday with about 400 economic-crime fugitives now back on home soil.
Gao Xiaoyan, a major general is under investigation for suspicion of bribery, becoming the first female general to be snared since anti-corruption campaign launched in 2012.
Two senior Chinese officials have been removed from office for "serious discipline and law violations."
China has stepped up its fight against corrupt officials and those near them, judicial experts said, after a Beijing court sentenced the mistress of a former railway official on Tuesday.
A senior official in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, was recently placed under investigation on suspicion of bribery, said the top anti-graft watchdog in the province.
Prosecutors in Shanxi province have approved the arrest of Zhang Xiuping, a former deputy Party chief at Jinzhong, on suspicion of bribery, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced on Thursday.
Sui Fengfu, a senior official of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, is under probe for suspected "serious law and discipline violations."
The French government will assist the Chinese judiciary by confiscating the illegal assets many corrupt officials have transferred to France.
Cases involving officials and businesses top the list ranking the types of corruption in China, according to the Party's discipline inspectors.
China will establish a new anti-graft body to further tighten pressure on corrupt officials, said deputy Procurator-General Qiu Xueqiang.
Prosecuting authorities seized more than 200 million yuan ($32 million) in cash from the house of an energy official, a procurator revealed Friday.
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