Ferrari Crash Alerts Censors
A Ferrari crash on a Beijing highway in the early morning hours of Tuesday may not have aroused much attention, until netizens suddenly found that searches for “Ferrari” were blocked on microblogging sites. Rumors started flying about the identity of the driver, who died in the crash, and ...
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Party bigwigs nearly all have fat overseas bank accounts, especially in countries with bank secrecy laws. Kickbacks and all sorts of irregular income and ill-gotten gains can be used to buy the official’s son, even an illegitimate son, a Ferrari.
[...] New York Times ran a story on how Ling Jihua’s attempt to cover up his son’s death in that Ferrari crash may have severely weakened Hu Jintao’s position during this year’s CCP [...]