(Reuters) – Disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai has agreed to plead guilty at a trial likely to be held within weeks, three sources said, in an apparent bid to earn a more lenient sentence and allow authorities to close the door on the country’s biggest political scandal in decades.
But it was not clear if he would plead guilty to all or only some of the charges of accepting bribes, corruption and abuse of power.
Bo’s downfall is the country’s most divisive political scandal since the 1976 downfall of the Gang of Four at the end of the Cultural Revolution.
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Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/ZUBUM5IBSrI/
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