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Jul 21, 2024 · One investment was in Alibaba Pictures, a film and television company. Mr. Huang and his wife, Zhao Wei, paid about $400 million to acquire a 9 percent stake. But the couple paid for it with...
Jul 21, 2024 · Trading in Alibaba Pictures stock was temporarily suspended, and two days before it resumed, Mr. Huang and his wife paid about $400 million to acquire a 9 percent stake from ChinaVision’s former chairman. The widely publicized investment boosted confidence in the new company, in part because Ms. Zhao was a bankable movie star at the time.
Jul 21, 2024 · Mr. Huang with his wife, the movie star Zhao Wei. The couple invested in Mr. Ma’s film business with money from one of Mr. Xiao’s companies. Credit...
- Where Did Xiao’s Money Go?
- ‘National Significance’
- The Chateau
- Calls For A Beneficial Ownership Registry
As early as 2008, Xiao’s family was setting up a financial foothold in Canada. Xiao’s brother-in-law, Fan Yanfeng, established the China Resource Allocation Corp., which listed his director’s address at a condo in southern Ontario’s winery region, Niagara-on-the-Lake. But it wasn’t until 2015 that Xiao’s family began snapping up development sites a...
Financial crime experts and political observers say the case raises questions about how Winnermax was able to secure its funding in Canada as China imposes a capital export limit of US$50,000 per year on every citizen. If the transfers don’t follow legal and transparent methods, it raises questions about money laundering. Matt McGuire, a Toronto-ba...
The investments didn’t only go into commercial real estate. The key directors of these companies also bought properties in the GTA’s most exclusive postal codes. The group even has real estate in British Columbia, with one HZC Capital director listing his address at a $1.6-million home in Coquitlam, a suburb of Vancouver. Unexus director Fan and hi...
With many of the properties tied to Xiao’s family members purchased using numbered or holding companies, financial crime experts say this case highlights the urgent need for a national beneficial ownership registry, a publicly searchable database that would store details about who actually owns and controls private companies. McGuire said Canada’s ...
Jul 21, 2024 · In 2017, Xiao, who holds passports from Canada and Antigua and Barbuda, was abducted from the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong and brought into police custody in mainland China. The Times reported that video footage captured by security cameras in the hotel lobby showed that Xiao was led out of the Four Seasons in a wheelchair with his head covered.
Aug 19, 2022 · A Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong in 2017 was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for a multibillion-dollar string of financial offences and his company was fined...
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Aug 19, 2022 · Xiao - one of China's richest people - was last seen being whisked away from a luxury hotel in Hong Kong in 2017. There had been no official word from him since, until the Canadian embassy said...
