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Bo Xilai wanted to kill police chief to hide wife's murder of UK businessman | Sacked Chinese politician Bo Xilai reportedly plotted three ways to kill Chengdu police chief Wang Lijun to hide the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood by his wife
Gu Kailai. According to the Daily Mail, Bo Xilai, then a rising star of the Chinese
Communist Party, was trying to prevent Wang Lijun, from revealing that Heywood
had been murdered. To escape Xilai's fury, Wang sought refuge in the U.S. consulate
in Chengdu in February, where he told American diplomats that Heywood was poisoned
by Gu Kailai. He claimed that Kailai had an affair with Heywood, and had also
confessed to killing him. A Hong Kong magazine, New Way , had claimed in an investigation
that Bo drew up three false explanations to hide the planned killing of Wang.
The first story was to blame the killing on the local mafia as revenge for police
efforts to fight crime in the city. The second was to pretend that Wang had committed
suicide to escape being punished for corruption. The third fake explanation was
suicide caused by Wang's depression. Bo opted for the third explanation, the magazine
claimed, because the first was too difficult and the second would undermine his
push for national power. Bo's aides had also allegedly forged Wang's medical history
to prove that the police chief suffered from depression. The magazine claimed
that five members of Wang's circle were interrogated, with two of them dying under
torture, and others were put under surveillance. Heywood's death ended the political
career of Bo, who was sacked after it was claimed he had wire-tapped phones of
senior Communist Party leaders. The wire-tapping network was reportedly discovered
when anti-corruption officials detected a phone call made to Chinese President
Hu Jintao was being bugged. The body of the Old Harrovian business 'fixer', who
had known the Bo family for a decade, was found in a hotel in Chongqing last November.
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