BEIJING - A graft investigation has been opened against Fang Keyou, former deputy chief of the disciplinary inspection team under the Communist Party of China committee of the eastern Anhui Province, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) announced on Tuesday.

Fang is suspected of taking bribes and has been placed under "coercive measures," which include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest, the SPP said in a statement.

The case is being investigated by prosecutors from Liu'an city, by an order of the Anhui provincial people's procuratorate.