Bo Xilai's successful lawyer wife Gu Kailai has subsequently been implicated in the death of a British businessman
Bo Xilai attends a National People's Congress session in Beijing in March 2012. In China's biggest political drama in decades, Bo -- a charismatic rising star among the country's technocratic leaders -- was sacked as leader of the Chongqing megacity in March and then suspended from the Communist Party's powerful Politburo.