Four more investigated over China's election scandal

Four more former government officials in central China's Hunan province have been put under investigation over an election scandal, local authorities said on Monday.

Wang Changying, and another three suspects are being investigated for crimes of dereliction of duty and disrupting an election, according to the People's Procuratorate of Hunan.

Another 60 suspects connected with the electoral fraud scandal were put under investigation earlier.

The scandal in Hengyang emerged on Dec. 28 when the provincial legislature disqualified 56 vote-buying provincial legislators and announced that more than 500 lawmakers in the city had been disqualified, dismissed or had resigned.

An investigation has shown that the 56 provincial legislators had offered 110 million yuan ($18 million) in bribes to 518 municipal lawmakers and another 68 staff.