"In November 2012, the "South China Morning Post" reported that in the aftermath of the Ferrari death of Ling Gu, the 23-year-old son of Ling Jihua, top aide to former Party General Secretary Hu Jintao, Jiang wired hush money from the company's accounts to the families of the two women who were accompanying Ling Gu at the time of his death.Jiang was an alternate member of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and a full member of the 18th Central Committee.