(Comprehensive News in New York) Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman in exile, was charged with fraud in a court. The U.S. prosecutor said that Guo Wengui cheated investors more than $ 1 billion (S $ 1.35 billion) funds for purchasing luxury homes, yachts, luxury carswait.
Comprehensive Reuters, Bloomberg and other reports, Guo Wengui's fraud case opened in New York, USA on Friday (May 24).
US Assistant Prosecutor Micah Fergenson pointed out that Guo Wengui accumulated a large number of followers on the Internet by publishing videos that criticized the Chinese government; after filling his property in mainland China and Hong Kong, Guo Wengui began to sell fraud to his followersSex items.
Ferguson said: "Guo Wengui has implemented a large -scale simple scam. He used the money stolen from the person he deceived and fraud, and lived the life of billionaires."
Guo Wengui was arrested in the United States last March and is currently being held in Brooklyn, New York.Guo Wengui's lawyer Sabrina Shroff argued in the court that Guo Wengui's business was legal and not a scam.
Prosecutors pointed out that since 2018, Guo Wengui has promoted financial opportunities in his Chinese network video, providing the public with investment information of his media companies, cryptocurrencies and a farm loan plan. He also sold high -end club membersqualifications.
Prosecutors said that Guo Wengui misappropriated these funds to purchase a luxury house worth 26 million US dollars, a $ 37 million yacht, multiple luxury cars, and other luxury goods, including two valued 36,000US dollar mattress and $ 60,000 television.
Guo Wengui faces 12 crimes of fraud, blackmail, co -conspiracy and money laundering, and related trials are expected to continue until July this year.
Guo Wengui left China in 2014. During the United States, he criticized a large number of supporters by criticizing the Chinese government and leaders online, but the outside world could not verify whether he was revealed.
