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Exclusive: Briton killed after threat to expose Chinese leader's wife

By Chris Buckley
Reuters
Monday, April 16, 2012

Chongqing, China (Reuters) - The British businessman
whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was
poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a
Chinese leader's wife to move money abroad, two sources
with knowledge of the police investigation said.

It was the first time a specific motive has been revealed
for Neil Heywood's murder last November, a death which
ended Chinese leader Bo Xilai's hopes of emerging as a
top central figure and threw off balance the Communist
Party's looming leadership succession.

Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, asked Heywood late last year to
move a large sum of money abroad, and became outraged
when he demanded a larger cut of the money than she had
expected due to the size of the transaction, the sources
said.

She accused him of being greedy and hatched a plan to
kill him after he said he could expose her dealings, one
of the sources said, summarizing the police case. Both
sources have spoken to investigators in Chongqing, the
southwestern Chinese city where Heywood was killed and
where Bo had cast himself as a crime-fighting Communist
Party leader.

Gu is in police custody on suspicion of committing or
arranging Heywood's murder, though no details of the
motive or the crime itself have been publicly released,
other than a general comment from Chinese state media
that he was killed after a financial dispute.

The sources have close ties to Chinese police and said
they were given details of the investigation.

They said Heywood - formerly a close friend of Gu and who
had been helping her with her overseas financial dealings
- was killed after he threatened to expose what she was
doing.

"Heywood told her that if she thought he was being too
greedy, then he didn't need to become involved and
wouldn't take a penny of the money, but he also said he
could also expose it," the first source said.

The sources said police suspect 41-year-old Heywood was
poisoned by a drink. They did not know precisely where he
died in Chongqing. But they and other sources with access
to official information say they believe Heywood was
killed at a secluded hilltop retreat, the Nanshan Lijing
Holiday Hotel, which is also marketed as the Lucky
Holiday Hotel.

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