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China rounds up dozens following probe into Bo Xilai scandal | Chinese law enforcement authorities have
detained at least 39 persons in connection with a scandal linked to disgraced communist Party leader Bo Xilai. The Communist Party has promised to ‘thoroughly
investigate’ Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai for their role in the death of British
businessman Neil Heywood. “The detainees include Xu Ming, who had a very special
relationship with Mr Bo, and mainly people from Dalian and other places, not from
Chongqing,” Wang Kang, an independent scholar and public figure in Chongqing,
who is the first person to go on record after Bo’s removal from the Chinese Politburo.
Wang added that 41 yr-old Xu is one of China's richest men, a billionaire who
heads the Dalian Shide industrial conglomerate, and has been absent from the company
since mid-March. One of the people in custody is Xia Deling, the former party
chief of Nan'an district in Chongqing who is rumored to have supplied the cyanide
that killed Mr Heywood. The 350-man Communist Party Central Committee, the body
made up of the leading figures among China's government, army and party, claimed
to have made a "resolute decision to thoroughly investigate" the web of intrigue
around Mr Bo's family and added that Mr Bo had "seriously violated party discipline".
Reports said that allegations of Mr Heywood being romantically involved with Mrs
Gu remained unclear while other sources in Chongqing , close to the police investigation,
claimed that the relationship was ‘platonic’.
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