Chinese tycoon faces US trial over $1.35 billion investor swindle
He built a strong online following criticising the Chinese Communist Party and pitching investments to his supporters. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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He built a strong online following criticising the Chinese Communist Party and pitching investments to his supporters. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Jurors will weigh the fate of the high-living developer and Beijing critic Guo Wengui, who linked up with Steve Bannon.
US News: Jury selection starts on Wednesday in the criminal trial of exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. US prosecutors have alleged that he defrauded thous
A wealthy Chinese businessman who left China a decade ago and became a U.S.-based outspoken critic of his homeland's Communist Party went on trial in New York on Wednesday for what prosecutors say were multiple frauds that cheated hundreds of thousands of people worldwide of over $1 billion. Guo Wengui, 57, once believed to be among the richest people in China, sat with his lawyers in Manhattan federal court as jury selection began for a trial projected to last seven weeks. Judge Analisa Torres told dozens of prospective jurors crowded into a courtroom that they were being considered fo...
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