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发帖数: 8181 | 1 HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has launched an
internal inquiry into allegations made by The New York Times that the family
of Premier Wen Jiabao accumulated at least $2.7 billion in "hidden riches",
the South China Morning Post said on Monday.
Wen himself asked for the inquiry in a letter to the Politburo Standing
Committee - the party's top decision-making body of which he is also a
member - in an apparent move to clear his name, the Hong Kong daily said,
citing unnamed sources.
Lawyers for the Wen family have rejected The New York Times' October 26
report, which says corporate and regulatory records show Wen's mother,
siblings and children amassed most of their wealth since Wen became Vice
Premier in 1998.
"The Standing Committee had agreed to his (Wen's) request," the South China
Morning Post said, quoting the sources.
It cited some analysts as saying that Wen's request for a probe showed the
premier was keen to use it as a chance to push forward a long-stalled "
sunshine law", which would require a public declaration of family assets by
senior leaders.
However, Professor He Weifang, a law expert at Peking University, told the
Post that he doubted the party's senior leadership would go that far.
"Even if Wen wants to disclose his assets, I don't think other senior
leaders, who may also have 'hidden wealth' of their own, will allow him to
go ahead, considering the explosive social repercussions," He said.
(Writing by Mark Bendeich; Editing by Terril Jones and Michael Perry) |
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