The authorities said that the fleeing Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui was arrested in New York on Wednesday morning. The charges were planned to have a complicated conspiracy, and he deceived at least 1 billion US dollars from thousands of online followers.

A federal prosecution in Manhattan accused Guo Wengui and a defendant in the same case using Guo Wengui's huge network influence to recruit investment in various entities and projects by promising huge economic returns and other interests.

Federal Prosecutor Damian Middot in the South New York District; Williams said in a statement that Guo Wengui was accused of using his stolen money, including buying a 4,600 square meter luxury home for himself and his close relatives, a car carFerrari worth $ 3.5 million, even two mattresses worth 36,000 US dollars.Williams said the money also provided funds for a $ 37 million luxury yacht.

Guo Wengui, also known as Middot; Guo, is a business partner of Stephen Middot; Bannon, who was a senior consultant of former President Trump.In August 2020, Bannon was arrested on a yacht on Guo Wengui's yacht; Bannon refused to plead guilty of these allegations, and Trump later pardoned Bannon.

A spokesman for the Federal Investigation Bureau said that Guo Wengui was arrested in the apartment in his Shirley Hotel in the Netherlands on Wednesday.

Guo Wengui's lawyer did not comment immediately.On Wednesday, Guo Wengui wore a band shirt, black work pants and black sneakers briefly.He smiled and waved to several audiences in the hearing seats, and conducted no guilt through a lawyer.The judge ordered it to be detained and waited for further trial.

For six years, Guo Wengui has been regarded as the public critic of the CCP, and is loved by some conservatives and many Chinese and diasporas in the United States.The U.S. Prosecutor's Office issued a press release of bilingual bilingual press releases.

In 2017, Guo Wengui applied for asylum because his attack on senior Chinese officials made him a political opposition to the Chinese regime. One of his lawyers said at the time.

At the same time, Guo Wengui is also trying to please the Trump administration.In early 2017, Guo Wengui posted a photo of him in the Malaras Manor of the Resort Village in Trump in Trump, when Guo Wengui was a member there.A few months later, he told him many followers on social media that he booked the Trump International Hotel in Washington as the meeting place.

According to the indictment, the co -defendants Guo Wengui and other conspiracy began to use fraud and fictional business and investment opportunities to ask for, money laundering and misappropriation of victim funds in 2018.

The indictment stated that in the case, they posted a video on social media, announcing that the GTV Media Group, a social media platform that claimed to focus on news, issued stocks in New York.It was promoted as the first platform for citizenship news and social news with the most advanced technology, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and real -time interactive communication platforms.

The indictment stated that in more than six weeks in 2020, GTV ordinary stocks worth about $ 452 million were sold to more than 5,500 investors in the United States and foreign countries.However, prosecutors said most of them were not used to develop and expand their business.For example, the prosecutor said that $ 100 million was used to invest in high -risk hedge funds.

In another scam mentioned in the indictment, Guo Wengui and others were charged with the seduce of people to invest in a project called G | Club more than $ 250 million. Its official website claims that the project is an exclusive high -end member project that provides all -round service services.EssenceMembers who want to join need to pay a fee of 10,000 to 50,000 US dollars at one time.

According to the indictment, in fact, most of the funds raised did not provide funds for the company. G | Club did not provide anything close to LSquo; all -round service RSquo; and lsquo; experience rsquo;

The indictment accused that Guo Wengui and the defendant Yu Jianming missed most of the funds.The indictment stated that G | Club's $ 26.5 million in funds were used to buy Guo Wengui's luxury homes in New Jersey; more money was used to pay luxurious decorations, furniture and decorations, including China and Persian carpet worth nearly $ 1 million, A $ 62,000 television and $ 53,000 firewood wood rack.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission sued Guo Wengui in another civil lawsuit.

Guo Wengui is a serial scammer, and the person in charge of the law enforcement department of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gibir Middot; Grawal said in a statement.Guo Wengui used hype and temptation around cryptocurrencies and other investment to cause thousands of people to harm and provide funds for his luxury life of him and his family.

Guo Wengui's legal dilemma across the Pacific Ocean.The United States' allegations against Guo Wengui were exactly the same as that of the Chinese government in 2017. At that time, he was accused of bribery and misappropriation of public funds.Before leaving China in 2014, Guo Wengui managed a real estate empire. Its core business was a hotel, residential and office complex in Beijing, overlooking the 2008 Summer Olympic venue.

In his motherland, he also established political and economic relations with influential officials, including Ma Jian, a senior intelligence official.Ma Jian recorded a confession video in 2017, admitting that he had collected a property equivalent to more than 109 million yuan from Guo Wengui and provided him with benefits.

Guo Wengui is very ruthless to those who hinder him.A Beijing Deputy Mayor had hindered him to obtain the property rights of the Olympic venue. Later, he obtained a video of the deputy mayor and his mistress sexual relationship, causing the deputy mayor to fall off.

Guo Wengui rose in 2017. At that time, he was far away from Chinese justice and publicly accused the Chinese anti -corruption Tsar Wang Qishan's corruption in the newly bought house at the Fifth Avenue of Manhattan, saying that his family had a secret shares of a large enterprise group.The Times cannot confirm Guo Wengui's claim.

At the Dutch Sydney Hotel, Guo Wengui lived a luxurious life.His 18 -storey top apartment is worth $ 68 million, and the entrance is controlled by British bodyguards. Here he provides guests with the wine of the No. 1 winery.Guo Wengui likes to show the guests' customized suit in his wardrobe, and put on the villain posture in James Middot; Bond's film, and take a photo with his white Bear dog.

According to the New York Fire Bureau, after Guo Wengui was arrested on Wednesday, the 18th floor of the hotel had a fire at noon.US Prosecutor's Office spokesman Nichotot; Bis said that the fire was under investigation.

Guo Wengui's home in Beijing is a spectacular mansion of lakeside courtyard, located north of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.In 2017, a real estate agency in Beijing was valued at $ 230 million.

But after Guo Wengui went to New York from Beijing and lived in exile, he had lent him tens of millions of dollars in the pace.A financial company filed a lawsuit and asked to take back this top apartment.According to Reuters, in 2022, Guo Wengui announced his personal bankruptcy. The assets listed were not more than 100,000 US dollars, and the liabilities were as high as $ 500 million.

Benjamin Weiser is a reporter from the Federal Court of Manhattan.He has long been reported as a runter and investigating reporter for criminal justice.Before joining the Times in 1997, he worked at the Washington Post.Welcome to follow him on Twitter: @benweisernyt.

Michael Forsythe is a reporter from the Times.He has served as a reporter in Hong Kong to report the intersection of Chinese money and politics.He also worked in Bloomberg News and was an American navy veteran.Welcome to follow him on Twitter: @pekingmike.

Translation: New York Times Chinese website