In the first of a four-part series, Revisiting Chongqing, we look at one of the earliest and most high-profile victims of the disgraced party chief's crackdown on so-called gangsters.
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- Jun 19, 2013
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While Bo Xilai received bribes worth more than 20 million yuan (HK$24.5 million), it was the greed of his wife that brought down the former Politburo member, an internal Communist Party...
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The expulsion of Bo Xilai from the party shows that the tactics he used to run Chongqing, steeped in the ideology of the Cultural Revolution, were ultimately doomed, a party newspaper said.
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