Chinese people play cards on the pavement near the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court, where Wang Lijun will be tried on Tuesday, in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. At the height of his career, Wang led a police crackdown on the violent underworld in a sprawling metropolis, arresting hundreds of gangsters and government officials, some of whom were sentenced and executed in a matter of months. Now the former police chief is in the hands of the opaque Chinese justice he once brandished against others. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Chinese people play cards on the pavement near the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court, where Wang Lijun will be tried on Tuesday, in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. At the height of his career, Wang led a police crackdown on the violent underworld in a sprawling metropolis, arresting hundreds of gangsters and government officials, some of whom were sentenced and executed in a matter of months. Now the former police chief is in the hands of the opaque Chinese justice he once brandished against others. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Chinese policemen huddle near the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court, where Wang Lijun will be tried on Tuesday, in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. At the height of his career, Wang led a police crackdown on the violent underworld in a sprawling metropolis, arresting hundreds of gangsters and government officials, some of whom were sentenced and executed in a matter of months. Now the former police chief is in the hands of the opaque Chinese justice he once brandished against others. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
People walk past the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court, where Wang Lijun will be tried on Tuesday, in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. At the height of his career, Wang led a police crackdown on the violent underworld in a sprawling metropolis, arresting hundreds of gangsters and government officials, some of whom were sentenced and executed in a matter of months. Now the former police chief is in the hands of the opaque Chinese justice he once brandished against others. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
CHENGDU, China (AP) ? A Chinese court is resuming a trial for a former police chief at the center of a divisive political scandal that shook China's leadership.
The Intermediate Court in the city of Chengdu resumed proceedings against Wang Lijun on Tuesday, a day after holding an unannounced closed-door hearing on charges related to his surprise flight in February to a U.S. consulate.
Wang was a headline-grabbing police chief in the nearby city of Chongqing and aide to senior politician Bo Xilai when he fled to the U.S. consulate and told of the murder of a British businessman.
In the fallout since, Bo was ousted from the leadership, his wife was convicted of the murder and the scandal sapped Chinese leaders' attention in the midst of a tricky transfer of power.
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