Authorities have detained securities shares yesterd executives, an investment fund manager, government employees and a reporter for suspected of a business magazine following the col sensitive infor lapse in prices that began in early June the official Xi The announcements that brokerages Citic employ themselves were under investigation rep former empl resented a further widening of the probes. were suspect The investigations were seen by many A star Chi as an attempt by the ruling Communist was detaine Party to deflect blame for the 30% fall by the insider tradi Shanghai index after state media encour The mar than 150% aged the public to buy stocks. Citic is China's biggest brokerage and hitting a pe part of state-owned Citic Group. Guosen The do and Haitong are among the country's 10 that politic biggest securities firms. at the expe In September, the police ministry responded announced Citic executives including its from sellin general manager, Cheng Boming, were back any r