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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...
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 · Some of Mr. Ma’s friends haven’t fared any better. Mr. Huang was sued in Hong Kong for millions in unpaid debts. His wife, Ms. Zhao, has not appeared in a movie since 2019, though some references to her on the Chinese internet have been restored. Mr. Ma, in his statement, said he had not been in contact with either of them “for many years.”
- 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 · One of the documents in the leak was a white glove agreement between Huang Youlong and a company controlled by Xiao Jianhua. The right side is a translation of the original document. 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 ...
Jul 4, 2022 · People who engaged in restructuring talks with Tomorrow Group told the FT in May that Xiao’s wife, Zhou Hongwen, was in Canada and had been dealing with some of the group’s asset...
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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...
