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The Shanghai procuratorate's warrant for the arrest of Xu Zhen was issued nearly four months after the country's top anti-corruption watchdog had put Xu under investigation. © Reuters

ZHANG YUZHE and LUO MEIHAN, Caixin

The former chairman of a clearing and settlement platform for the interbank market has been charged with corruption and bribery, the latest senior financial official to fall in the government's yearslong anti-graft campaign.

The Shanghai procuratorate issued a warrant for the arrest of Xu Zhen, former chairman and Communist Party secretary of the Shanghai Clearing House, nearly four months after the country's top anti-corruption watchdog said he had been put under investigation. The announcement of the warrant was released Thursday by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

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