“The facts of the two defendants’ crime are clear, and the evidence is irrefutable and substantial
Updated 7:50 PM ET (AP) BEIJING – Prosecutors have charged the wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai and a family aide with the murder of a British businessman, the government said Thursday, 보은출장샵 pushing ahead a case at the center of a messy political scandal that unsettled China’s leadership ahead of a delicate power transition. The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that the recently issued indictment said Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, had a falling out with Briton Neil Heywood over money and worried that it would threaten her and her son’s safety. Gu and the aide, Zhang Xiaojun, are alleged to have poisoned Heywood together, the report said. Heywood’s death in November was attributed initially to a heart attack or excessive drinking. The brief report is the first official news that the case against Gu is proceeding since the announcement three months ago that she and Zhang were being investigated and that Bo was being suspended from the powerful Politburo for unspecified discipline violations. Unmentioned in the Xinhua report was any reference to Bo or a separate party investigation into him. “To charge a Politburo member if he was involved in any way in the murder would have sullied the reputation of the Communist Party in ways that would have been too much for the leadership to handle,” said Joseph Fewsmith, a China politics expert at Boston University....
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