There is new evidence that Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced former Chinese Communist Party politician Bo Xilai, was involved in selling the organs of prisoners of conscience.
The trial of Gu Kailai for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood had not considered the real reasons for the crime, which are tied up in a 13-year-long collaboration in profiting from the bodies of Falun Gong practitioners.
Gu Kailai, the wife of scandal-ridden Chinese politician Bo Xilai, confessed to the murder of British business associate Neil Heywood out of desperation, Chinese state-run media said on Friday.
Heywood’s involvement with former Chinese Communist Party heavyweight Bo Xilai and Bo’s wife Gu Kailai was far more extensive than has previously been reported.
While the fate of Bo Xilai, the ousted Chongqing Party chief, is still being secretly deliberated by China’s top leaders, Party official Rao Wenwei remains in prison, having been sentenced to 12 years for writing articles critical of Bo.
Gu Kailai, the wife of Bo Xilai, a high-level Party official that was deposed in a spectacular power struggle earlier this year, has been formally indicted for homicide.
In a written statement to Parliament on April 17, U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague threw light on the death, in a hotel in China, of British businessman Neil Heywood.
Bo Xilai, the recently ousted Communist Party official, kept a lot of secrets. Before Bo Guagua, he had another son: Li Wangzhi—who became a supporter of democracy in China, and is now reportedly under house arrest in the country’s north.
Articles in China’s state-run media indicate that former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai may face tougher punishment than merely being removed from his Party posts.
After former British foreign minister called for U.K. police to go to China to investigate the death of British businessman Neil Heywood, speculation is intensifying.