Guo Wengui

Guo Wengui, Chinese Real Estate Magnate, Mar-a-Lago Member, Steve Bannon Associate, Manhattan, NY, Resident, Chinese Fugitive involving Ma Jian, Chinese Spymaster

Hong Kong police investigating fugitive Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui over alleged HK$32 billion money laundering conspiracy, court papers reveal South China Morning Post Details of inquiry contained in judicial challenge by company owned by tycoon’s daughter, which is seeking to unfreeze bank accounts under investigation in city Chris Lau  August 14, 2018 “Hong Kong police are investigating the exiled Chinese fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui for an alleged conspiracy in which he and his accomplices, including his son and daughter, laundered more than HK$32 billion (US$4.1 billion) through various companies set up in the city, a court document has revealed. Details of the investigation were made known in a judicial challenge by a company owned by Guo Mei, the property tycoon’s daughter, filed at the High Court on Tuesday, seeking to unfreeze bank accounts under investigation in the city. Guo, who fled to the United States in 2015, was hit with an Interpol red notice last year that accused him of paying a 60 million yuan (US$8.7 million) bribe to China’s former state security vice-minister, Ma Jian. Also known as Miles Kwok, Guo has since turned into a critic of some senior Chinese officials and faces defamation lawsuits as well as rape allegations in the US, where he is seeking political asylum. According to the writ filed in court, four bank accounts belonging to Anton Development Limited, solely owned and directed by Guo Mei, have been frozen since July 12, 2017, by DBS bank at the request of police. The tycoon was accused along with his daughter, his son Guo Qiang, an employee named Qu Guojiao and a man identified as Han Chunguang of involvement in a conspiracy in which they used their personal bank accounts – and those of Anton and Hong Kong International Funds Investments Limited, also owned by Guo Mei – to launder a total of HK$32.9 billion, believed to be proceeds of an indictable offence. Qu, a manager of the two companies, was arrested on August 3 last year, and is now out on bail. The frozen accounts contained at least HK$1.57 billion (US$200 million), according to the writ.”

Australian property developer’s encounter with Interpol most-wanted Guo Wengui Sidney Morning Herald By Kirsty Needham He is a very bad man,’ says Melbourne’s Zheng Jiefu, who says his family and business had been threatened by the flamboyant billionaire. “He did damage to my business and damage to my family”.He has appeared in three sensational video interviews, broadcast online, in which he has levelled corruption allegations at the family of Chinese vice ministers. Mr Guo has also admitted toppling a former Beijing deputy mayor by providing a sex tape to police. Hours before the latest webcast, recorded by Voice of America in New York, went to air on Wednesday, Interpol issued a red notice for his arrest pending extradition. China’s Foreign Ministry labelled him a criminal suspect. Amnesty International has said the red notice against Mr Guo’s raises questions about the political interference of China in Interpol, whose president is former Chinese vice minister of public security Meng Hongwei.

“But Mr Zheng believes Mr Guo is a central figure in one of China’s “black societies“. Mr Zheng has assets worth about $40 million in Australia. But in China, he had controlled a $2billion conglomerate, Tianjin Bohai Circle, until it was appropriated by Mr Guo and China’s then powerful spymaster Ma Jian. Mr Guo is wanted by Interpol for allegedly bribing former Chinese state security vice-minister Ma Jian with 60 million yuan ($11.5 million). Ma is under investigation for corruption.

“Mr Zheng told Fairfax Media in 2015 that Mr Guo and Mr Ma heavied all of his important relationships, destroyed his marriage, threatened his children and, at one stage, turned up with six Reservoir Dogs-style henchmen in sunglasses and black coats. Mr Guo left China two years ago after his assets of $US17 billion ($22.6 million) were frozen in a corruption investigation into Mr Ma. Mr Guo has claimed that the red notice was issued to put pressure on Voice of America not to broadcast Mr Guo’s interview.”

Chinese fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui ‘accused of rape’: sources Associated Press South China Morning Post Chinese police investigating allegations that Guo – already wanted on graft charges and living in the US – assaulted a former personal assistant, official sources say August 31, 2017 “Two Chinese officials with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that police are requesting a second Interpol arrest notice for Guo, 50, for the alleged sexual assault of a 28-year-old former personal assistant. Lawyers representing him at the New York firm Boies Schiller Flexner did not respond to requests for comment.”

Epoch Times, Guo Wengui, Steve Bannon & the White House

@arapaho415 “Bannon said at the event [NYC press conference on Nov 13, 2018] that he got to know Guo when he was working at the White House…” Bannon left the WH in August 2017, so it had to be before that in June [2017], Trump gathered his top aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, Jared Kushner, and former chief strategist Steve Bannon, for an Oval Office meeting about Chinese foreign policy. Briefed on Beijing’s alleged efforts to steal cutting-edge research from labs and trade secrets from U.S. companies, Trump reportedly said that he knew of at least one ‘Chinese criminal’ that America needed to deport immediately.’Where’s the letter that Steve brought?’ he asked his secretary. ‘We need to get this criminal out of the country’…” “referring to a letter that [Steve] Wynn, whose multi-billion-dollar gambling properties in Macau must be approved annually by Chinese authorities. had given him at a private dinner.” “Trump was reportedly considering deporting Guo until aides talked him out of it—including informing him that Guo… [is] a member of his Mar-a-Lago resort (a privilege that costs $200,000 in initiation fees plus $14,000 in annual dues).” h/t @ThomasS4217

Exiled Chinese Billionaire Sheds Light on Regime’s Forced Organ Harvesting The Epoch Times by Leo Timm March 28, 2017, updated: May 30, 2017 Though associated with communist leaders, Guo Wengui declared his support for persecuted Falun Gong adherents, publishers of The Epoch Times which has pushed a counter-narrative called “Spygate”

@Arapaho415 “Back to original question posed by @JuddLegum : why does THE EPOCH TIMES have an outsized role in 2020? Have not yet found proof that Guo Wengui funds The Epoch Times, but there’s this (more…) Oct 22, 2018:” A Newspaper Banned In China Is Now One Of Trump’s Biggest Defenders BuzzFeed Hayes Brown, October 22, 2018 updated October 23, 2018

@Arapaho415 “In a bizarre twist to the domestic politics of both the United States and China a Falun Gong–linked newspaper has emerged as one of the staunchest defenders of Donald Trump’s presidency.” (more…) Tweet sent on Oct 12, 2018: The Epoch Times tweeted “BREAKING: For the first time ever, the most comprehensive overview of the ‘Spygate’ collusion compiled, vindicating @realDonaldTrump and @DonaldJTrumpJr. See more: theepochtimes.com/spygate-the-tr

@Arapa@Arapaho415 “This happened on Sep 12, 2018: “Trump accepted the folder and appeared to open it briefly as he departed before quickly shutting it, the witnesses said.”

White House reviews incident involving Epoch Times photographer handing a folder to Trump Washington PostBy David Nakamura @DavidNakamura “I don’t have this in the story but someone pointed out to me that the Epoch Times photographer @SamiraBouaou  has an Instagram photo from 2012 in which she is posing in front of the sign for the Shen Yun — a performing arts troupe Beijing views as a propaganda for Falun Gong.” @DavidNakamura “I don’t have this in the story but someone pointed out to me that the Epoch Times photographer @SamiraBouaou  has an Instagram photo from 2012 in which she is posing in front of the sign for the Shen Yun — a performing arts troupe Beijing views as a propaganda for Falun Gong.”

@Arapaho415“Though news photographers captured images of the moment when Bouaou handed Trump the folder, none appears to have been published, even on news wire services.” “Several news photographers said they were angered by Bouaou’s lack of professionalism, but they also said privately that they feared if the matter was made public it could prompt the WH to further restrict access for the news photographers.”

@Arapaho415“The Shen Yun troupe appeared locally last month — for me, their ads were inescapable — saw ads on just about every website I visited, and saw posters at the local strip malls where grocery stores are located. (I had no idea!) more… shenyun.com/thousandoaks/t
@Arapaho415“BrianFallon [HRC campaign]: “The [NY]Times’ hand-in-glove arrangement w/Bannon’s ‘Clinton Cash’ project was one of the major press fiascoes of the 2016 cycle. It is mind-blowing & journalistically reckless that the Times is going down this road again. “Last time, he had the right-wing conspiracy media to boost his chants of ‘lock her up,’ but this time he’s going to actually weaponize the federal gov’t against our nominee,” said Jesse Ferguson, a senior spokesperson on the Clinton campaign.” @danpfeiffer“It’s happening all over again Peter Schweizer does oppo research funded by conservative interests –> NYT credulously writes it up –> Trump and his allies bully the DOJ into investigating –> Trump claims his opponent is corrupt twitter.com/blakehounshell

 

 

 

 

@Arapaho415 “Briefed on Beijing’s alleged efforts to steal cutting-edge research from labs and trade secrets from U.S. companies, Trump reportedly said that he knew of at least one ‘Chinese criminal’ that America needed to deport immediately. ‘Where’s the letter that Steve brought?’ he asked his secretary. ‘We need to get this criminal out of the country’…” “referring to a letter that [Steve] Wynn, whose multi-billion-dollar gambling properties in Macau must be approved annually by Chinese authorities had given him at a private dinner.” “Trump was reportedly considering deporting Guo until aides talked him out of it—including informing him that Guo… [is] a member of his Mar-a-Lago resort (a privilege that costs $200,000 in initiation fees plus $14,000 in annual dues). Back to original question posed by @JuddLegum: why does THE EPOCH TIMES have an outsized role in 2020? Have not yet found proof that Guo Wengui funds The Epoch Times, but there’s this (more…) Oct 22, 2018:”A Newspaper Banned In China Is Now One Of Trump’s Biggest Defenders BuzzFeed Hayes Brown, October 22, 2018 updated October 23, 2018

 

TRUMP DECIDES NOT TO DEPORT DISSIDENT AFTER LEARNING HE’S A MAR-A-LAGO MEMBER Vanity Fair BY ISOBEL THOMPSON Guo Wengui, a billionaire Chinese dissident dubbed the “Che Guevara of Chinese crony capitalism,” a cohort of Chinese officials who infiltrated Trump’s New York penthouse using a fluffed set of visas and a letter from the Chinese government, hand-delivered to the president by Republican National Committee finance chairman Steve Wynn, a casino tycoon with links to the Chinese-controlled gambling haven Macau. As The Wall Street Journal detailed this week, Guo, who built a real-estate empire in Beijing, fled China in 2014 after learning that a state security associate was about to be arrested. With an application for asylum in the U.S. pending, Guo has settled into a $67.5 million apartment overlooking Central Park, which is reportedly furnished with crystal chandeliers and a large Lego model of London Bridge. While Beijing has accused Guo of involvement in multiple major crimes including bribery, kidnapping, and rape, he has torn a page from Trump’s playbook and styled himself as a maverick, broadcasting sensational claims of official Chinese corruption via webcasts, tweets, and a litany of emojis.”

Fugitive Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui ‘has US$1.1 billion of assets frozen by Hong Kong court’ South China Morning Post Nectar Gan  Matt Ho  November 20, 2018

  • “Court order on October 23 ‘prohibiting sales of 510 million shares of Haitong International’ awarded to government prosecutors
  • Report came on day of Guo’s press conference in New York, at which he vowed to reveal ‘truth’ about HNA Group founder Wang Jian’s death in France

“The report by online news outlet HK01 came as Guo, also known as Miles Kwok, was to hold a press conference in New York on Tuesday, with an introduction by former US presidential adviser Steve Bannon. A restraint order issued on October 23 includes prohibition of sales of 510 million shares – or 14.98 per cent – of Hong Kong-listed Haitong Securities “effectively controlled” by Guo under his alias Kwok Ho-wan through three offshore companies, the report said.”

Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon join forces to imply Beijing involvement in Wang Jian’s death South China Morning Post Jun Mai   November 21, 2018 h/t @ThomasS4217

  • “The ex-Trump adviser compared Wang’s death to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal
  • Bannon said he partnered with Guo to draw attention to the disappearance of high-profile investors in China and the country’s growing overseas investments

“The much-discussed shock death earlier this year of Wang Jian, the former chairman of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, was not an accident, according to a fugitive Chinese tycoon known for making allegations about corruption in China. Self-made billionaire Guo Wengui, who fled to the United States in 2014, made the claim at a press conference on Tuesday in New York. He was joined at the event by Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist. Wang, 57, died on July 3 during a trip to the village of Bonnieux in the Provence region of France. Law enforcement officials there concluded that he fell off a wall and have ruled out foul play.Wang’s death attracted considerable attention as he was regarded by some as the mastermind behind HNA’s ambitious global shopping spree. HNA had been on a leveraged buying binge until about a year ago, spending an estimated US$40 billion since 2015 on a 25 per cent stake in the Hilton hotel group, shares in Deutsche Bank, several golf courses and four pieces of land in Hong Kong that sold for record prices.”

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