AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED President Xi Jinping's push to counter graft and extravagance has ensnared a series of senior bankers, with the 2013 investigation into the former vice president of Agricultural Bank of China Ltd being one of the most high-profile.
An investigation into Li Ruohong, chairman of Guangfa from 1999 to 2009, is going on, said prosecutors in Guangdong, a southern province in China, in a notice posted on The Supreme People's Procuratorate official website.
They did not elaborate on the allegations or say how long the investigation would take.
A Guangfa Bank official declined to comment when contacted by Reuters, merely saying the bank "did not have a grasp of the situation at present". Li could not be reached for comment.
In 2011, the bank, previously known as Guangdong Development Bank, was reportedly considering a dual-listing on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges.
(Reporting by Engen Tham; Additional reporting by Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Robert Birsel)
