Billionaire in exile Guo Wengui, who once toppled Beijing vice mayor with sex tape, targets China’s deputy police chief
Guo Wengui says top party leaders were backing his now jailed business rival, Li You
After nearly two years of silence, a controversial mainland tycoon has resurfaced and alleged that members of the Communist Party’s inner circle were among the backers of a fallen business rival.
Guo Wengui, the controlling shareholder in Beijing Zenith Holdings and Beijing Pangu Investment, appeared in a video interview last Thursday on Mingjing, an overseas Chinese political rumours website.
Guo said in the interview that Li You, former CEO of technology conglomerate Founder Group, had powerful “backers” in the party’s Politburo Standing Committee. He vowed to name some of these backers later.
Guo also made allegations against deputy national police chief Fu Zhenghua, who headed the special unit that investigated disgraced security tsar Zhou Yongkang.
But Guo did not provide evidence to back up his claims, which cannot be independently verified.
