Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday night, days after a New York court ordered him to pay $134 million to a creditor for moving a yacht out of U.S. waters to prevent it from debt collection.
Guo, a real-estate developer also known as Miles Kwok, said he fled China in 2014 after learning a state security official linked to him was the subject of a corruption investigation. Beijing later said it was pursuing Guo on a slew of criminal charges, allegations the businessman has denied.
Guo has since lived in New York City and amassed a large following, particularly among Chinese Americans, by painting himself as a mega-rich dissident and freedom fighter who is trying to take down China’s ruling Communist Party. He had an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion in 2015, and the Fifth Avenue penthouse he lived in was worth $68 million.
The Chapter 11 filing indicates that Guo is seeking debt relief and to stop all collection efforts against him pending a reorganization of his finances. He declared that he now owned less than $100,000 of assets but owed dozens of creditors to the tune of $100 million to $500 million.
Guo said his debts came from “litigation expenses, claims and judgments,” and included a list of entities that were in legal disputes with him.
Guo has become an influential player in the conservative media world in the U.S. after......【阅读英文报道全文】作者: wy10002001 时间: 2022-2-16 12:26
賊性不改，資產轉移，賴帳不還。把他在中國練就的詐騙功夫用到美國來了。作者: Comstock 时间: 2022-2-16 15:04
还是比我多作者: htchh110 时间: 2022-2-17 05:05
蒼天有個小窟窿！！！！！！！作者: kwcha333 时间: 2022-11-15 06:38 本帖最后由 kwcha333 于 2023-1-22 22:07 编辑
