Now they say that this is about a messy extra-marital affair. How disappointing!:-)
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China: Explosion killed five in JiNan (suspected car bombing?)
photos of the bombing scene
Posted on 07/16/2007 8:26:19 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Lawmaker arrested for alleged murder of mistress
2007-7-16
A CHINESE lawmaker has been arrested in connection with the murder of his mistress with a car bomb earlier this month.
Duan Yihe, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Jinan Municipal People's Congress, is alleged to have hired his nephew-in-law, a Jinan policeman, to plant the car bomb that killed Liu Haiping on July 9, according to a source with the Shandong Provincial Public Security Department.
Police found remnants of the bomb in Liu's car after the blast, which killed her on the spot and also engulfed a nearby taxi in flames. The taxi driver survived the fatal explosion with some injuries.
Duan, 61, a deputy to the current tenth National People's Congress -- China's top legislature -- began an intimate relationship with Liu, 30 years his younger, in 1993 when she worked at a local hotel, he admitted to the police.
With Duan's help, Liu secured employment in the Jinan Financial Bureau and then the Municipal Bureau of State Land and Resources. Her two sisters also secured more high-paying jobs.
Duan had been trying to split up with Liu since 1999 due to what he termed as "conflicts" in their relationship, but Liu refused.
Duan told police he had just wanted to arrange a traffic accident with the help of his nephew-in-law Chen Zhi, an officer with the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau, so that Liu would "lose her ability to think."
On July 9, Chen planted explosives in Liu's car and set off the blast by remote control when Liu was driving.
On Monday, Duan was stripped of his membership of the national legislature at a conference of the standing committee of the Shandong Provincial People's Congress.
He has also been expelled from the Communist Party of China and removed from Party posts.
Now they say that this is about a messy extra-marital affair. How disappointing!:-)
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So basically he’s a Chinese Ted Kennedy.
Looks like Duan took a page from the Russians.
He’ll be executed within 10 days and rightly so. Unfortunately , his expulsion from the Party and execution will also have a consequences for his wife.
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