The details of Chen Liangyu's case

The financial magazine Caijing explains the finer details of the wrongdoings of Chen Liangyu, Shanghai's former party secretary. The bigger political picture gets a bit lost here, but by actually including Chen's parents in the story - although they only add emotion, no facts - makes clear that we are going to see quite a lot of his very special court case.

In an apartment in the Luwan district of Shanghai, an old couple has saved a well-worn newspaper dated July 27, 2007. The headline reads, “China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Answers Reporters on Chen Liangyu’s Serious Violation of Principles.”
“We know nothing more than what was printed in the paper,” said the husband, Chen Genghua, an 86-year-old retired engineer,as his wife, Li Mouzhen, bears a look of sadness and distress.
The person mentioned in the headline is Shanghai’s disgraced former party secretary, who has been embroiled in a multi-billion yuan pension fund scandal. Chen is also the eldest of the couple’s three sons.