"Tang Xiaolin is an utterly corrupt person and someone who lies about money. Back then, he covered up all of this and I did not see it. I was blinded. I thought this was all about business so I handled it in the same way I handle normal business. I think the statement from a person who used to be a liar more than a decade ago and is also corrupt does not have credibility. He has committed a large crime and wants to minimise his sentence, so he is like a rabid dog biting people".
Perplexingly, considering the political sensitivity of the trial and the extreme opacity that shrouded the proceedings against Mr Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, who was found guilty last year of murdering the British businessman Neil Heywood, and against Wang Lijun, Mr Bo's former police chief, the exchanges from the court were live-tweeted by officials.
Former Chinese politician Bo Xilai during his trial in the Intermediate People's Court in Jinan, east China's Shandong province (AFP/Getty Images)
It is not unprecedented for senior Chinese leaders to dispute accusations at trial. Both Chen Xitong, the former mayor of Beijing and Chen Liangyu, the party secretary of Shanghai, denied various charges at their respective trials.
But the publication of Mr Bo's proceedings in real-time was unprecedented, and presumably designed to convince the Chinese public that Mr Bo will receive a fair hearing.
Another surprise had come earlier in the morning when Bo Guagua, Mr Bo's 25-year-old second son, was dragged into the mire surrounding his father.
"From 2000 to 2012, Bo accepted bribes either personally, or through his wife Gu Kailai or his son Bo Guagua […] totalling 21,790,586 yuan," the court heard.
A mobile phone held by the photographer shows a photo from a court's microblog page of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai standing trial (Reuters)
The younger Bo, who has recently enrolled at Columbia university's law school in New York, now looks destined to live the rest of his life in exile.
Aware that protestors had been drawn to the trial like moths to a flame, the police in the eastern city of Jinan cordoned off a large area around the courthouse. Locals said they had never seen such a large security presence.
Police arrive at the Intermediate People's Court in Jinan (AFP/Getty Images)
Nevertheless, small groups of Mr Bo's supporters held up posters of Chairman Mao and chanted for justice as they waited for the trial to get underway. They were quickly bundled away.
Mr Bo himself arrived in a silver Mercedes minibus just after seven o'clock in the morning and was subsequently led into court wearing a white long-sleeved shirt to take a seat in front of 110 observers, including five members of his family.
Journalists film a screen displaying a court's microblog page showing disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai standing trial, in Jinan, Shandong province (Reuters)
A photograph of the court showed the 6ft-tall Mr Bo with clasped hands, flanked by two policemen who towered over him. In the second row of the audience, his brothers Bo Xiyong and Bo Xicheng were visible.
Mr Bo's seat faced a monitor, on which the evidence against him was displayed, including his videoed and handwritten confessions and the taped testimonies of witnesses.
British businessman Neil Heywood and Gu Kailai, wife of Bo Xilai (Reuters)
The chief judge in the case is Wang Xuguang, the deputy head of the court who was once a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois in the United States.
There were 19 journalists inside the court, according to officials, and leaked memos published by the China Digital Times website suggested that all Chinese media was told to use official Xinhua reports. "Unified plans have been made for related reports; the media must not independently report this information," said one memo.
Additional reporting by Adam Wu
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