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The police
chief at the centre of China's biggest political scandal for years sought a
meeting with UK officials hours before he fled to a nearby US mission, the BBC
has learnt.
Wang Lijun
did not show up as arranged at the UK consulate in Chongqing, UK government
sources told the BBC.
Instead he
allegedly tried to defect at the US mission in nearby Chengdu.
The events
led to the removal from office of his boss, Bo Xilai, one of China's leading
political figures.
The BBC's
Damian Grammaticas in Beijing says the events triggered the biggest scandal to
engulf China's ruling Communist Party in recent years.
In recent
days it has been claimed that Wang Lijun had concerns that a British citizen,
Neil Heywood, who died in China last year, had not died accidentally.
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