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Corruption trial in China: Bo Xilai hopes to get his revenge / Asia News

Bo Xilai, former Communist Party chief of the southwestern city of Chongqing, speaks during his trial in Jinan, Shandong province, in this still image taken from China Central Television (CCTV)

The Chinese leaders Bo Xilai has fallen deep in the corruption trial against him is a judgment shortly. Now threatens Bo: “My name is washed one day.” He’ll follow in the footsteps of his father after his release – the rose to fame in late.

Like his father, the legendary Chinese leaders accused of corruption Bo Xilai sees as a political refugee. He assumes that his name is “someday” be cleansed, he wrote in a letter to his family. Hong Kong’s “South China Morning Post” quoted from the letter on Thursday. “I will wait quietly in prison,” Bo explains it. “My father has been in prison several times. I will follow in his footsteps.”

His father, Bo Yibo was a revolutionary leader, he was already with Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square when he proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in October 1949. Bo Yibo was thus one of the so-called Immortals: eight officers, who were particularly close to the Communist Party and paved the founder of the state’s path to power.

But Bo Yibo later fell out of favor. He was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution initiated by Mao Zedong and spent more than ten years in prison. The late seventies, he got back into the narrowest compass to guide to the later reform architect Deng Xiaoping.

Son Bo Xilai was thus one of the “red princelings” – so called sons and daughters deserved comrades who rose under the umbrella of their parents to local party leaders or bosses of state-owned enterprises. But Bo Xilai plunged deep.

He was first governor of Chongqing and Politburo member, won by his populist style many supporters. But some party leaders, he was a thorn in the side. On charges of corruption and abuse of power Bo had to give up his offices last year. In September 2012, he was expelled from the party.

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Since August, he is on trial, the proceedings shall be deemed trial of the year. A verdict is expected on Sunday. The hope of the former Communist Party threatens probably a life sentence.

The prosecution called Bos last passing as “extremely serious” and saw “no mitigating circumstances”. According to these formulations could be imposed even the death penalty. Bo himself admitted in his concluding remarks a mistake, but he rejected the main allegations.

The process followed in China with great attention. The population undergoes in unprecedented richness of intrigue at the highest level and luxurious living conditions of the elite. Bo pulled the procedures in the length and told Superior Court: So he called at the trial his wife, who loaded him in a prerecorded video recording, a “deranged” liar, their statements “ridiculous.”

The case against the former Politburo member had come through the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood rolling. The friend of the Bo family was poisoned in 2011 in a hotel room of the metropolis of Chongqing, where Bo KP chairman, had been found. Bos Ms. Gu Kailai was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. The former police chief of Chongqing, Wang Lijun, fled after the murder in a U.S. consulate. He was later arrested by the Chinese authorities for the murder and received a 15-year prison sentence.

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