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Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao sentenced to 13 years in prison

Shanghai court says tycoon Xiao Jianhua carried out corrupt practices including bribery and the illegal use of funds.

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A Shanghai court has sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua to 13 years in prison for corrupt practices including bribery [File: Next Magazine via AP]

Published On 19 Aug 202219 Aug 2022

A Shanghai court has sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua to 13 years in prison and fined his Tomorrow Holdings Co conglomerate a record 55.03 billion Chinese yuan ($8.1bn).

Xiao and his Tomorrow Holdings were charged with illegally absorbing public deposits, betraying the use of entrusted property, and the illegal use of funds and bribery, the Shanghai First Intermediate Court said on Friday.

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Xiao was fined 6.5 million yuan ($954,655) for the crimes, the court said.

The court said that Xiao and Tomorrow had “severely violated financial management order” and “hurt state financial security”.

From 2001 to 2021, Xiao and Tomorrow Holdings gave shares, real estate, cash and other assets to government officials totalling more than 680 million yuan ($99.87m), to evade financial supervision and seek illegitimate interests, the court said.

China-born Xiao, known to have links to China’s Communist Party elite, has not been seen in public since 2017 after he was investigated amid a state-led conglomerate crackdown.

In July 2020, nine of the group’s related institutions were seized by Chinese regulators as part of a crackdown on risks posed by financial conglomerates.

SOURCE: REUTERS

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