Lu Wei, the former deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and former head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, has been prosecuted by the Ningbo People's Procuratorate in east China's Zhejiang Province.
The 58-year-old was charged with taking advantage of his various posts to seek benefits for others and accepting a large number of bribes, according to the Ningbo procuratorate.
Lu was expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office in February.
He was deputy head of Xinhua News Agency from 2004 to 2011 and assumed the posts of publicity head of Beijing and deputy mayor of the capital city from 2011 to 2013. He led the Cyberspace Administration of China from 2013 to 2016 and was deputy head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee from 2014 to November 2017.