Detained top official Jiang Jiemin was probed over Ferrari crash in Beijing
Later inquiry focused on Ferrari accidentand funds to the families of injured women
Jiang Jiemin , the latest in a string of top mainland officials detained for corruption investigations, was last year questioned by party officials in relation to a Ferrari crash in Beijing, though the cases appear unrelated.
Sources had told the that the probe over Jiang focused on a large sum of money - several tens of millions of yuan - that was transferred from state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) to the families of two women injured in the single-vehicle accident.
The driver killed in the accident was Ling's son, Ling Gu. He lost control of a black Ferrari on Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road in the early hours of March 18 last year and slammed into a wall. He was found dead at the scene, half-naked.
Two young women - one naked and the other semi-clothed - who were with him in the car were seriously injured.
The Ferrari scandal may explain Jiang's absence from the public eye in August last year that led to speculation that he had fled abroad.
The 58-year old chairman of the State Council's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (Sasac) - the ministry-level agency that oversees about 70 trillion yuan (HK$88 trillion) of non-financial state assets - has spent his entire career in the oil industry.
