During a raid on the home of Lieutenant General Gu Junshan, armed police seized four truck’s worth of luxury items including a cellar of expensive wine likely worth tens of thousands of pounds, a golden hand basin as well as the glistening effigy of Chairman Mao.

Lt Gen Gu was the deputy director of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Logistics Department until January 2012 when he was taken into custody and placed under investigation for corruption. He has not been seen in public since.