BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court will announce its verdict on a former police chief at the centre of the country's biggest political scandal in decades on Monday, an official said, with observers in little doubt that he will be found guilty. The hearing for Wang Lijun, former police chief of southwestern Chongqing municipality, will come a week after he was tried in Chengdu on multiple charges, chiefly that he sought to cover up the murder of a British businessman by Gu Kailai, the wife of one of China's most senior and ambitious politicians, Bo Xilai. "The verdict will be announced at 8:30 am on September 24 in our court," an official in the Chengdu court news department told Reuters....
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