China Murder Suspect’s Sisters Ran $126 Million Empire
The sisters of Gu Kailai, who is suspected of murdering a U.K. citizen and is the wife of disgraced Chinese official Bo Xilai, controlled a web of businesses from Beijing to Hong Kong to the Caribbean worth at least $126 million, regulatory and corporate filings show.
杀害英国公民的嫌犯和中国被贬谪官员薄熙来(专题)的妻子谷开来，据信她的姐姐们从从北京到香港到加勒比，所运作的财富至少1.26亿美元。
Gu Kailai, 53, was the youngest of five daughters of a People’s Liberation Army general, according to a Chinese- language website affiliated with the Communist Youth League. She rose from a butcher’s assistant during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution to become a lawyer who argued cases in the U.S.
谷开来，53岁，一位人民自由军将领的五个女儿中的么女。中国共青团的中文网页显示，文革之中她是红卫兵，在美国期间变成律师。
Now China says she is suspected of murdering businessman Neil Heywood in November, and her husband this week was suspended from the Communist Party’s elite Politburo.
现在中国政府说她是去年11月杀害尼尔海伍德的嫌疑犯，他丈夫这周被解除中共中央政治局委员职务。
Her sisters focused on business rather than politics. Gu Wangjiang, 64, the oldest, is a Hong Kong national who owns $114 million in shares of an eastern China printing company, according to a Shenzhen exchange filing tracked by Bloomberg.
她的姐姐们关心商业多于政治。大姐古wangjiang,64岁，香港居民身份，布隆博格查阅深交所材料显示，她在一家位于中国东部的印刷公司中拥有1.14亿股。
Wangjiang and her sister, Gu Wangning, serve as directors of several other companies, including some that Hong Kong company registry records trace to the British Virgin Islands. They also have made millions selling Hong Kong real estate. Another sister, Gu Zhengxie, 62, was a top official at one of the country’s biggest state-owned companies.
Wangjiang和妹妹谷Wangning,还担任其他公司的董事，包括注册在香港的和维珍群岛的公司。她们还在香港从事房地产买卖。谷zhengxie,62岁，担任规模最大的国企之一的一把手。
Their wealth -- and the fact they put some assets offshore where ownership is harder to trace -- illustrate how the politically connected thrive in China, a country where Bo himself last month warned of the dangers of a rising wealth gap. While many of the country’s top leaders, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, have children who are top executives, the Gu sisters have left a paper trail that details some of their activities.
他们的财富，通过复杂的离岸资产安排很难查到归属，更难以与中国政治联系起来，薄熙来(专题)上个月警告这个国家贫富分化到了危险的地步。很多国家领导人子女……谷家姐妹留下了他们的活动轨迹。
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