(Reuters) – China for the first time on
Wednesday implicated former senior politician Bo Xilai in a criminal act while
avoiding naming him directly in a published account by state media of the trial
of his one-time police chief.
The Bo scandal has rocked Beijing, exposing rifts within the ruling Communist Party – elements of which are strong supporters of Bo’s populist, left-leaning policies – at a time when China is preparing for a once-in-a-decade leadership change.
Wang Lijun, ex-police chief of southwestern Chongqing city, tried to tell “the Chongqing party committee’s main responsible person at the time” – in other words, then-Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo – that Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, was suspected of murdering a British businessman.
source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-china-trial-idUSBRE88I0G520120919
