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本帖最后由 deepocean 于 2012-6-21 12:08 AM 编辑
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BEIJING—Police in Cambodia said they have arrested a French architect who was close to the wife of Bo Xilai, the ousted Chinese Communist Party leader, in the latest twist in a case that has triggered the worst political crisis in China in more than two decades.
Patrick Henri Devillers was arrested about two weeks ago in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, said the city's police chief, Touch Naruth. He said he couldn't give more details as the case was in the hands of the national police's immigration department.
France's Foreign Ministry confirmed that a French citizen had been arrested in Cambodia, but declined to identify him and said it was trying to find out what he was accused of. China's Foreign Ministry didn't answer telephone calls.
Mr. Devillers, had close ties to Mr. Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, who the Chinese government said is in custody as a murder suspect in the death in China last year of Neil Heywood, a British business consultant also close to the Bo family.
Ms. Gu's husband was dismissed as Communist Party chief of Chongqing city in March and from his remaining party posts in April.
Messrs. Devillers and Heywood were part of a small circle of friends and advisers around Ms. Gu in the 1990s when they lived in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, where Mr. Bo was mayor from 1993 to 2001, said people who knew all four of them.
Ms. Gu and Mr. Devillers were consulting partners for Horas Consultancy, which advised businesses investing in Dalian and elsewhere in China in the 1990s, according to that firm's publicity material.
The Chongqing Drama
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The mysterious death of Neil Heywood in the Chinese city of Chongqing last year is emerging as a key element in the drama surrounding Bo Xilai, who was sacked as Chongqing's Communist Party chief in April.
When Ms. Gu moved to Britain in 2000 so her son, Bo Guagua, could go to a private boarding school there, Mr. Devillers appears to have moved there, too, and to have shared an apartment with her in the southern seaside city of Bournemouth.
Ms. Gu, using the name Horus Kai, and Mr. Devillers are both listed as directors of a company called Adad Ltd. that was set up in the town of Poole in 2000 and dissolved in 2003, according to British public records.
In those documents, Ms. Gu and Mr. Devillers both list the same apartment in Bournemouth as their residential address and people who knew them at the time said they saw them together in Bournemouth.
It isn't clear how long Mr. Devillers had been living in Cambodia, but he left China several years ago, said people who knew him there.
Bernard Valero, a French Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the French government was in contact with Cambodian authorities "to determine what exactly he has been accused of," he said.
"We are bringing him every assistance possible within the framework of the Vienna Convention," he said. "We are in contact with his family and we are making sure if he needs a lawyer, he has one."
A person who answered the telephone at the home of Mr. Devillers's father, Michel, hung up without leaving time for questions.
—Sun Narin in Phnom Penh and Geraldine Amiel and David Gauthier-Villars in Paris contributed to this article.
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