Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui gets 30 years in US prison for huge fraud
Key takeaways
- A federal judge said Guo’s fraud cost more than 1,000 people worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Guo Wengui, who fled China a decade ago and reinvented himself in the US as a critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was sentenced on Monday in a Manhattan court by Judge Analisa Torres.
- Guo, once believed to be among China’s wealthiest men, was also ordered to forfeit $889m in restitution.
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A federal judge said Guo’s fraud cost more than 1,000 people worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Guo Wengui holds a news conference in New York, the US, in November 2018 [File: Carlo Allegri/Reuters]By AFP and APPublished On 30 Jun 202630 Jun 2026A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon has been sentenced to 30 years in a United States prison for financial fraud that a federal judge said cost more than 1,000 people worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars.
Guo Wengui, who fled China a decade ago and reinvented himself in the US as a critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was sentenced on Monday in a Manhattan court by Judge Analisa Torres.