Bo Xilai, former Party chief of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, has been suspended from membership of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the CPC Central Committee, the CPC Central Committee said in a statement on April 10.

Bo is suspected of being involved in serious discipline violations, according to the statement.

The statement said that the suspension is in line with the CPC Constitution and the rules on investigation of CPC discipline and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC will file the case for investigation,

Xinhua News Agency said in a separate report that Chinese police have set up a team to reinvestigate the death of British citizen Neil Heywood who was found dead in Chongqing on November 15, 2011.

The existing evidence indicates that Heywood died of homicide. Bogu Kailai, Bo's wife, and Zhang Xiaojun, an orderly at Bo's home, are suspects and have now been transferred to judicial authorities on suspicion of having committed intentional homicide, said Xinhua.