(ANSA) – BEIJING, AUGUST 19 – The Sino-Canadian tycoon Xiao Jianhua, who disappeared from a Hong Kong hotel in early 2017, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for financial crimes by a Shanghai court at the end of the trial. July.
Xiao, one of the most controversial billionaires of the Dragon, with close ties to the upper echelons of the Communist Party, had disappeared on the eve of the 2017 Lunar New Year from the Four Seasons hotel in Hong Kong with a blitz by Chinese agents, when he was not in Beijing. allowed to operate in the former colony. Later, his disappearance was linked to President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, in power since 2012.
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Source: Ansa
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