21-11-2013, 09:16 AM
Uniquely China! Money can be confiscated, "gangster" can be detained as wish. Same for the returned of money, but too bad, time and freedom lost in jail cannot be restored...
China reimburses victims of Bo Xilai — but keeps them in jail
CHONGQING — Earlier this year, a phone rang in the offices of Yuxi Bandao, one of the largest construction companies in China’s city of Chongqing.
The news delivered in the phone call from the police was a tacit admission that the company had been wrongly victimised under the regime of Chongqing’s former Communist party chief, Bo Xilai: After three years, 2 billion yuan (S$406 million) in the company’s bank account was being unfrozen.
Yuxi Bandao was one of hundreds of companies targeted by Bo and his “iron-fisted” police chief, Wang Lijun, during a two-year terror campaign known as “Smash the Black!”.
Bo painted the campaign, which arrested 7,400 people between 2009 and 2011 according to official statements, as a mission to rid Chongqing of its mafia. The Chongqing Daily newspaper said nearly £7 billion (S$14 billion) was confiscated from detainees.
Many speculate that Bo needed the money to fund the lavish infrastructural projects that endeared him to the working class, but left the city close to bankruptcy.
Building projects in several districts have been stalled and even government officials have seen their salaries suspended at times, said one former government official in the city.
Now, the money is being returned. But there is a catch: Yuxi Bandao’s Chairman, Wang Neng, a well-connected tycoon who also sat on the city’s legislative council, is still in jail. He was given a life sentence after Bo branded him a gangster.
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http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/ch...-them-jail
China reimburses victims of Bo Xilai — but keeps them in jail
CHONGQING — Earlier this year, a phone rang in the offices of Yuxi Bandao, one of the largest construction companies in China’s city of Chongqing.
The news delivered in the phone call from the police was a tacit admission that the company had been wrongly victimised under the regime of Chongqing’s former Communist party chief, Bo Xilai: After three years, 2 billion yuan (S$406 million) in the company’s bank account was being unfrozen.
Yuxi Bandao was one of hundreds of companies targeted by Bo and his “iron-fisted” police chief, Wang Lijun, during a two-year terror campaign known as “Smash the Black!”.
Bo painted the campaign, which arrested 7,400 people between 2009 and 2011 according to official statements, as a mission to rid Chongqing of its mafia. The Chongqing Daily newspaper said nearly £7 billion (S$14 billion) was confiscated from detainees.
Many speculate that Bo needed the money to fund the lavish infrastructural projects that endeared him to the working class, but left the city close to bankruptcy.
Building projects in several districts have been stalled and even government officials have seen their salaries suspended at times, said one former government official in the city.
Now, the money is being returned. But there is a catch: Yuxi Bandao’s Chairman, Wang Neng, a well-connected tycoon who also sat on the city’s legislative council, is still in jail. He was given a life sentence after Bo branded him a gangster.
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http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/ch...-them-jail