By Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party said on Tuesday it had launched a corruption investigation into former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, one of the country's most influential politicians of the last decade, in a case that has its origins in a party power struggle. Zhou, 71, is by far the highest-profile figure caught up in President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee - China's apex of power - and held the post of security tsar until he retired in 2012. A brief statement released to coincide with a regular party meeting said Zhou was being investigated for suspected "serious disciplinary violations", the usual euphemism for corruption, although it could also imply additional wrongdoing.
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