{"id":53460,"date":"2023-03-16T01:57:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/15\/ho-wan-kwok-arrest-fraud-conspiracy-steve-bannon"},"modified":"2023-03-16T04:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:47:35","slug":"chinese-business-tycoon-and-bannon-ally-guo-wengui-arrested-in-1bn-fraud-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53460","title":{"rendered":"Chinese business tycoon and Bannon ally Guo Wengui arrested in $1bn fraud conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US attorney says Wengui, also known as Miles Guo and Ho Wan Kwok, used stolen money to buy a $3.5m Ferrari and finance a $37m yacht<\/p>\n<p>Guo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese tycoon with close links to prominent Trumpist Republicans including Steve Bannon, has been indicted on 12 counts relating to an alleged $1bn fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The charges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/ho-wan-kwok-aka-miles-guo-arrested-orchestrating-over-1-billion-dollar-fraud-conspiracy\">announced by the US attorney for the southern district of New York<\/a> on Wednesday include wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/15\/ho-wan-kwok-arrest-fraud-conspiracy-steve-bannon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US attorney says Wengui, also known as Miles Guo and Ho Wan Kwok, used stolen money to buy a $3.5m Ferrari and finance a $37m yachtGuo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese tycoon with close links to prominent Trumpist Republicans including Steve Bannon, has b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,415,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53468,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53460\/revisions\/53468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}