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| China court to issue Bo Xilai verdict on Sunday | |
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| The verdict in the case of disgraced former top Chinese politician Bo Xilai will be announced on Sunday, the Jinan court in Shandong province says. | |
| The notice was made on the court's official weibo account, the Chinese version of Twitter, on Wednesday. | |
| Mr Bo was charged with abuse of power, corruption and bribery. | Mr Bo was charged with abuse of power, corruption and bribery. |
| The former Chongqing leader and Communist Party official denied the charges in a trial last month that captivated people in China. | The former Chongqing leader and Communist Party official denied the charges in a trial last month that captivated people in China. |
| Mr Bo, 64, was a member of the powerful politburo - one of the 25 most senior party officials in the country - before he was brought down by one of the biggest scandals to rock China in years. | |
| He was tried in Jinan city for five days starting on 22 August. | |
| "The Jinan Intermediate People's Court will openly announce its verdict on the Bo Xilai bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power case on September 22, 2013 at 10 am [02:00GMT]," the court said on its official Sina weibo account. | |
| The scandal was triggered by the flight of Mr Bo's former police chief in Chongqing, Wang Lijun, who in February 2012 spent a day at the US consulate in Chengdu. | |
| Wang, who has since been jailed for 15 years, triggered an investigation into the murder of UK businessman Neil Heywood. | |
| Mr Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, has since been convicted of the killing and given a suspended death sentence. |