From the Independent:
Beijing’s No 2 Intermediate People’s Court is hearing a list of charges that would be familiar to TV’s fictional mobster clan, The Sopranos – bribery, assault, extortion, gambling, slicing off ears and the possession and sale of firearms.
Except this family is the Hu brothers, hard men from Shunyi in the Beijing suburbs, in what the Public Security Bureau says is one of the biggest gang-related criminal cases ever to blight the capital. [Full text]
