(XINHUA)

Rui Chenggang, a financial news channel anchor with the state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) network, was detained by prosecutors on July 11, according to Century Weekly magazine.

Rui's much-talked-about detention came after the Supreme People's Procuratorate's announcement on June 1 that the channel's Director General, Guo Zhenxi, and producer, Tian Liwu, were both being investigated on corruption charges. The investigation of Rui is reportedly related to Guo's fall.

Rui was born in 1977 in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. He joined CCTV's English news channel after graduating from China Foreign Affairs University. In 2008, he transferred to the financial news channel.

The anchor has raised eyebrows before, most notably at a news conference on the sidelines of the 2010 Group of 20 Summit. When U.S. President Barack Obama gave reporters from host country South Korea a chance to ask the last question, no South Korean reporters rose. Rui seized the chance, saying: "I'm actually Chinese, but I think I get to represent all of Asia."