Chinese businessman Guo Wengui – also known as Miles Guo and several other names – was convicted on nine out of 12 counts for a billion-dollar fraud scheme by a New York jury on Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest on Wednesday of flamboyant Chinese billionaire Ho Wan Kwok — known by multiple aliases including Miles Kwok, Miles Guo, and Guo Wengui — on charges of allegedly orchestrating a “sprawling and complex” fraud scheme that enriched him and an associate to the tune of over $1 billion.
The founder of Chinese Christian human rights group China Aid, Pastor Bob Fu, is in hiding with his family this week following calls by a Chinese billionaire to kill him and a “protest” outside his Texas home.
Exiled Chinese dissident Guo Wengui said this weekend that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “allocates $2 billion a year” to pay off the Vatican for its silence concerning Chinese atrocities.
Chinese police held a press conference on Monday in which they claimed twin brothers Chen Zhiyu and Chen Zhiheng forged documents at the behest of dissident billionaire Guo Wengui and leaked them to the Washington Free Beacon, leading to the publication of two stories embarrassing to the Chinese government. Chinese authorities admitted to using “coercive measures against the Chen brothers,” as the state-run Xinhua news service puts it, to obtain elaborate forced confessions.
The New York Times published a lengthy profile on renegade Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui on Wednesday that paints a very odd portrait of a man who might be either the Communist Party’s worst nightmare, a sharp businessman using global politics to make a few bucks, or an eccentric with an appetite for media attention. Actually, none of those possibilities is exclusive, so he might be all three.
Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, who Xi Jinping called “the most human, most emotional person out of all the (Chinese) officials,” says he is planning a “change of the regime” in Beijing to bring democracy to China. From his luxury apartment in Manhattan Guo said he aims for “rule of law” to be established within three years in the world’s most populated country.
President Trump reportedly considered deporting a key Chinese dissident after a hand-delivered letter from Steve Wynn.
The Hudson Institute, a Washington, DC, think tank, canceled a talk with Chinese whistle-blowing billionaire Guo Wengui this month after its website suffered a “Shanghai-based attack,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Wang Qishan, the head of China’s corruption agency the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, is as of Wednesday no longer a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the most powerful body of the Chinese Communist Party.
Self-exiled Chinese real-estate mogul Guo Wengui blasted what he called the “kleptocracy” running China, and warned that a wave of Chinese spies are being dispatched to “decimate” the United States – where Guo is currently sheltered.
Billionaire real estate mogul Guo Wengui is currently visiting the United States on a tourist visa, but he decided he would like to stay a little longer after top officials back in his homeland declared him an enemy of the Communist regime. Guo applied for asylum in the United States this week, while the Chinese government has filed notices with Interpol seeking his arrest on charges of corruption and rape.
A recording of Obama era Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson soliciting controversial Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui for legal representation for his immigration woes emerged over the weekend.
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