Judgement in the case of Chinese ex-police chief Wang Lijun, tried for defection and other offences in a scandal that brought down top politician Bo Xilai, will be given Monday, a court official told AFP.
Motorists and pedestrians are seen passing the Chengdu People's Intermediate court in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province, on September 18, where Wang Lijun, an ex-police chief who triggered the Chinese Communist party's biggest scandal in years, was being tried. Judgement in the case of Wang will be given Monday, a court official told AFP.
"The verdict in the Wang Lijun case will announced on September 24," said a spokeswoman for the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court, who gave her surname as Sheng.
Wang fled to the US consulate in Chengdu in February, setting off a crisis that saw the fall of his patron Bo Xilai and revealed deep divisions in the upper echelons of Chinese politics ahead of a generational transfer of power.
The ex-police chief "did not raise an objection" to charges of defection, abuse of power, bribe-taking and bending the law for selfish ends, during a two-day trial that ended on Tuesday, a court statement said.
The charges carry a maximum penalty of death, but Tuesday's court statement quoted both prosecutors and defence saying that Wang's cooperation with authorities made him eligible for a more lenient sentence.
Wang, 52, was a close associate of Bo, then the top Communist party official in the sprawling metropolis of Chongqing.
But relations between Bo and Wang turned sour early this year, months after British businessman Neil Heywood, a close associate of Bo's family, was found dead in a Chongqing hotel room.
Bo's wife Gu Kailai was handed a suspended death sentence -- usually commuted to life imprisonment -- for Heywood's murder last month.
Bo has not been seen in public for months and he faces an internal party investigation for "serious" violations of discipline.
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