Solid gold bathroom fittings, a fraudulent mausoleum and a vast subterranean cache of booze have brought down one of China’s most powerful generals and caused the People’s Liberation Army’s worst corruption scandal for years.
Even for a Chinese public familiar with the dazzling spoils of corruption among its leaders, what emerged from the raid on the home of Lieutenant-General Gu Junshan was unusually lavish. The fact that the loot was so extensive that it took two days to remove it fanned public outrage.
The disgraced general’s tenure as the PLA’s deputy head of logistics appears to have become an extended orgy of embezzlement and bribe-taking involving a huge property portfolio in central Beijing. Apparently certain that he was untouchable, General Gu is alleged to have