China's procuratorate orders arrest of former supreme court judge

BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Upon the designation of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), the Shanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate has ordered the arrest of Zheng Xuelin, former chief judge of the No. 1 Civil Adjudication Tribunal of China's Supreme People's Court, for suspected bribe-taking.

Zheng's case was investigated by the National Commission of Supervision before it was handed over to prosecutors, the SPP said in a statement on Friday.