More details were released this week concerning the fall from grace of General Xu Caihou, former vice chairman of the formidable Central Military Commission. Xu retired last year and since has confessed to giving out promotions based on being paid "massive" bribes.  

The new details reveal Xu hid precious jade and more than "a ton" of cash in his home's cellar. Military prosecutors are preparing documentation for a court martial that's expected to strip away past accomplishments and result in prison time.

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Xu is one of the most powerful figures swept up in Beijing's war on official graft. Prosecutors searched his Beijing home in March looking for evidence of corruption. They found his luxurious home stashed with "more than a ton" of euros, yuan and U.S. dollars, according to Hong Kong sources.

Aside from a lot of cash, Xu also held an innumerable amount of precious gems, rare antiques and hundreds of pounds of expensive jade. Investigators needed 10 military trucks to take away all the ill-gotten goods and gains that were "piled up like mountains" in the former general's basement.

Reports of the scene at Xu's home and fall from grace have been splashed across Chinese media. He was said to "bow his head and admit defeat," when confronted with the evidence, official accounts said.

The influential Central Military Commission is headed by President Xi Jinping. It's in charge of the world's largest armed force with 2.3 million soldiers. Xi has repeatedly called for the military to be loyal to the party and avoid bribes and corruption.

Xu was arrested in June, stripped of all titles and thrown out of the Communist Party and Chinese military. He is the most outstanding example, to date, of graft and corruption that some says runs rampant through the nation's military Anti-graft proponents say graft in the military undermines china's ability to stage fight a war.

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