Foreign ministry questions motive for articles about wealth in British Virgin Islands as media websites appear inaccessible
China has sought to block and dismiss reports on the offshore holdings of relatives of top leaders, with a foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing suggesting "unconvincing" articles may have ulterior motives.
The reports, by the Guardian and others, based on leaked financial documents, showed that the brother-in-law of the president, Xi Jinping, and the son and son-in-law of the former premier Wen Jiabao were among more than a dozen family members of current or former leaders using offshore companies in the Caribbean.