After investigations revealed that a high ranking provincial official was illegally emgaged with crypto-mining activities, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) expelled him.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) alleged that Xiao Yi, former vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference from Jiangxi province abused his state-backed administrative powers to undermine the political principle of “two maintenance,” which relates to CCP’s notion of firmly maintaining the authority of the party: