(FILE)

Guo Yipin, formerly missing Vice Mayor of Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, was detained by police in a rented apartment in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, on October 6.

Guo, 52, was elected vice mayor of Luoyang in February. He was in charge of the city's work safety, coal mining, environmental protection and transportation. Since late July, he had not been seen or heard of by other leading officials and the daily meeting he presided over had been halted.

The vice mayor went missing after asking for a leave of absence on the grounds that his mother had taken ill. A report in mid-September said police officers were searching locations where Guo might potentially be hiding. It was reported that Guo was suspected of taking a bribe of 5 million yuan ($800,000) from a local real estate developer in 2012.

The case will now be handed over to the procuratorate in Henan's capital city of Zhengzhou for further investigation.