(CNN) -- Once the ultimate power couple in China, Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai have now vanished. Bo has been stripped of his top Communist Party posts for unspecified "serious violations of discipline," while Gu has been detained in connection with the death of Neil Heywood, a British businessman. The scandal has rocked the Chinese leadership to the core. But weeks after the shocking news of the couple's fall from grace broke, little substantiated information has come out. It has mostly been rumor and speculation. Some people at the center of the story have been silenced. Others have been locked up.
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Bo Xilai stripped of his top Communist Party posts for unspecified "serious violations of discipline"
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His wife, Gu Kalai, detained in connection with the death of a British businessman
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The scandal has stunned China's hierarchy, but little substantiated facts have come out
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Wang Kang says he has taken a risk by revealing what he knows about the Bo family
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But one insider who has dared to speak is @placeholder, a self-described "independent thinker," who seems to move in and outside Communist Party circles.
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But one insider who has dared to speak is Wang Kang, a self-described "independent thinker," who seems to move in and outside @placeholder circles.
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As for Bo's wife, Wang noted official Chinese reports allege @placeholder may have been complicit in Heywood's death.
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"It somehow became impossible for @placeholder to end this relationship with Heywood.
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"'Rumors stop at the wise mind', an old @placeholder saying says.