Neil Heywood scandal: Cambodia may not hand over Patrick Devillers

France, whose consul officials visited Mr Devillers following news of his
arrest, meanwhile warned that Cambodia must not take any action without a
clear legal basis.

Asked a number of times about Mr Devillers’ arrest on Wednesday, Hong Lei, a
Chinese Foreign ministry spokesman, told a daily news briefing: “I have
no information about that to provide to you.”

Mr Devillers is thought to be in custody in Phnom Penh’s Immigration Detention
centre. An architect who once helped Mr Bo and his wife plan the street grid
of Dalian, the city which they presided over in the 1990s, he is thought to
have lived in Cambodia since 2005.

He works as a property investor and owns a small wooden villa he designed
himself overlooking the resort of Kep. He is also believed to have married a
Cambodian woman with whom he has a young son.

A shopowner near the Cambodian villa Mr Devillers rented said he had never
seen his family.

The shop owner said Mr Devillers had lived at the address for around five
years and used it as the base for his design company.

“He spoke very good Chinese and told me he had some business there before
he came to Cambodia. He was always friendly to me, and to his neighbours,”
she said.

While Mr Devillers was the joint founder of a company in Bournemouth with Mrs
Gu in 2000, there is little sign of any connection after 2006, when Golden
Map, a company reportedly run by him out of Hong Kong, bought a flat in
South Kensington.

Mrs Gu is thought to have stayed there and her son, Bo Guagua, may also have
used it while studying at Harrow and then at Oxford university.

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