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BEIJING (Reuters) - The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) will discuss China's investigation of a deputy sports minister who sits on its board, but has had no official communication from China on the matter.
The ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said that Xiao Tian, who also sits on China's Olympic committee, is being investigated for suspected "serious breaches of discipline and the law", using a term often employed to denote corruption.
Xiao was elected vice president of FIBA last year though as the next board meeting of basketball's world governing body is not until August in Japan, he has not had an active role to date, the body said in an emailed statement to Reuters.