Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui filed for bankruptcy days after a New York court ordered him to pay $134 million for moving a yacht to prevent it from debt collection. *****yc6M5zPwXs
— VICE World News (@VICEWorldNews) February 16, 2022
He should maybe settle back in China.*****JMXmzPUTzS
— Pessimistic Persimmon (@Kenneth33071904) February 16, 2022
2月15日,据媒体Vice报道,周二晚,流亡的中国商人郭文贵申请破产,几天前,纽约法院命令他向债权人支付1.34亿美元,原因是他将一艘游艇移出美国水域,以防止被追债。
郭文贵是一名来自大陆的房地产开发商,英文名为Miles Kwok。他说,在得知与他有关联的一名国家安全官员成为腐败调查的对象后,他于2014年逃离中国。北京当局后来表示,它正在以一系列刑事指控追捕郭文贵,但该商人否认了这些指控。
此后,郭文贵一直住在纽约市,并积累了大量追随者,尤其是在华裔美国人中,他将自己描绘成一个试图推翻中国执政的共产党的超级富豪持不同政见者。他在2015年的净资产估计为11亿美元,他所居住的第五大道顶层公寓价值6800万美元。
破产申请文件表明,郭正在寻求债务减免,并在其财务重组之前停止对他的所有收债工作。他宣称,他现在拥有的资产不到10万美元,但欠数十名债权人的债权在1亿至5亿美元之间。
郭文贵说,他的债务来自“诉讼费用、索赔和判决”,其中包括与他有法律纠纷的实体清单。
网络分析公司Graphika2021年的一份报告发现,郭处于一个庞大的社交媒体网络的中心,该网络放大了“非主流”的新冠信息,并促进了他的粉丝参与的现实世界的骚扰活动。郭否认鼓励任何人参与骚扰。
郭文贵的破产律师威廉·巴尔迪加(William Baldiga)没有立即回应置评请求。
郭文贵居住多年的荷兰雪利酒店(Sherry-Netherland)18楼的曼哈顿公寓拥有15间客房,现在以4500万美元的价格出售,比2015年的成交价低约2300万美元。
上周,纽约法官裁定郭文贵安排一艘名为“梅夫人”号(Lady May)的游艇离开纽约水域前往巴哈马,以保护其免于追债。一直坚称自己并不拥有这艘游艇的郭被勒令向债权人支付1.34亿美元。
去年,与郭文贵有关联的三家媒体公司同意支付5.39亿美元,以解决这些公司非法销售加密货币的指控,但并未承认有任何不当行为。
郭文贵一直以“新中国联邦总统”自称,并在全球各地建立多个粉丝组织,称为“农场”,允诺高额回报让他的粉丝们投资“新中国联邦”。
1) #GETTR founder Miles Guo Wengui (aka Miles Kwok) pled the Fifth when asked in federal court about his money man, William Je. He didn't dispute that Je is a member of the CCP's Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CCPPC). *****NWzhflluS2 pic.twitter.com/kt5zLbezrO
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) July 15, 2021
4) Miles Guo Wengui (aka Miles Kwok), the founder of #GETTR, admitted in the trial that his "ultimate concern" was not to overthrow the CCP, but to fight the Wang Qishan faction within the CCP that had ousted his sponsor, Deputy Minister of State Security Ma Jian. pic.twitter.com/oTXUAcSU79
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) July 15, 2021
6) At the Strategic Vision trial, Miles Guo Wengui refused to tell the court, on grounds of self-incrimination, whether or not it was true that the CCP retaliated against him by freezing his assess in Hong Kong and the Mainland: "I am invoking the Fifth Amendment." pic.twitter.com/goL2ORdvzl
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) July 15, 2021
8) In the Strategic Vision trial, #GETTR founder Miles Guo Wengui would not tell the court whether he was getting money from Communist China.
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) July 15, 2021
Twice he pled the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination to avoid answering. pic.twitter.com/5yQ0Lmz1GI
15) Miles Guo Wengui won't tell the court who owns Guo Media, reputed to be one of the companies that spawned #GETTR.
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) July 15, 2021
Strategic Vision: "Do you own Guo Media?"
Guo: "I'm invoking the Fifth Amendment."
SV: "Do you know who owns it?"
Guo: "I'm invoking the Fifth Amendment." pic.twitter.com/EJiD8HxxsP
Chinese dissidents say they’re being harassed by a businessman with links to Steve Bannon *****lTwK7syKB6
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 19, 2020
16) Mayor Payton: Protesters are paid by CCP interests:
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) October 16, 2020
"They have no connection to China other than they wanted to get out of China. And so they’re no longer in China. China knows where they are … knows how to contact them, knows how to hire them and knows how to pay them."
4) Mayor Payton: "All the noise and all the threats you see on Youtube and Twitter from Miles Kwok [Miles Guo] are all in his service and his commitment to the regime of Xi." pic.twitter.com/eX90wGwoOn
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) October 16, 2020