Luxury French villa of jailed Chinese politician Bo Xilai 'up for sale at HK$66 million'
Luxury home featured in trial of ex-Chongqing party boss goes on market
For sale: French villa with views of the Mediterranean, five bedrooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and featured in the high-profile trial of jailed former Politburo member Bo Xilai. Asking price: €6.95 million (about HK$66 million).
The luxurious Cannes home that was at the centre of the country's biggest trial in decades - and which a mainland court has promised to confiscate - has gone on the market, the reported yesterday.
The 400 square metre villa sits on a hillside in one of Cannes' most exclusive resort areas and comes with two garages and a 4,000 square metre garden, according to the sales document provided by Fine & Country, the real estate company in charge of the sale.
The home is in a prime spot, where the average price of land is close to €6,000 per square metre, the newspaper reported, quoting a local real estate agent.
GALLERY: to see pictures of the luxury French villa and its gardens, click here
The villa is managed by Résidences Fontaine Saint Georges, the legal representative of which was Jiang Feng Dolby, a former Chinese state television anchorwoman, the report said. But the report did not say who put the villa up for sale.
The Shandong Higher People's Court, which heard Bo's corruption trial last year, said Jiang was the nominal owner of the villa bought by Xu Ming, a businessman with close ties to Bo, on behalf of Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, in 2001.
