China processing graft case against security boss's ex-mistress - paper

Chinese judicial authorities are processing a corruption case against a one-time mistress of the country's disgraced top security boss, a state-run Beijing newspaper reported on Thursday. Citing anonymous sources, the paper said Li Xiaomei reaped more than 30 million yuan (3.1 million pounds) by illicitly obtaining and reselling distribution rights for natural gas. Jiang Jiemin, once the top regulator of state-owned assets and a close acolyte of former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, aided Li in ob