Chinese court to announce verdict on Bo's case on Oct. 25 Bo Xilai (C), former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, is sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power, at the Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Jinan City, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Sept. He was deprived of political rights for life. The court announced the verdict. JINAN, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Shandong Provincial Higher People's Court announced on Monday that it will announce the verdict on Bo Xilai's case at 10 a.m. on Oct. 25.