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Chinese dissident billionaire treated me as sex slave: suit
http://nypost.com/2017/09/11/chinese-dissident-billionaire-treated-me-as-sex-slave-suit/
By Carl Campanile and Julia Marsh September 11, 2017 | 7:29pm
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Guo Wengui, Reuters
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The personal assistant to a dissident Chinese billionaire says the New York-based real estate tycoon treated her like a sex slave — allegedly raping her at his homes in Manhattan and London and threatening to have her jailed and tortured if she escaped, according to a new lawsuit.
Guo Wengui, 50, also known as Miles Kwok, fled China in 2015 following a fraud conviction. A year earlier he had summoned Rui Ma to New York from his Hong Kong real estate offices, according to her $20 million suit filed Monday.
Once in the Big Apple, Guo took Rui’s passport and monitored her communications, the suit alleges.
He told her that if she tried to return to China “she would be arrested and thrown in prison, where she would be tortured,” court papers state.
She “became [Guo’s] captive,” the suit says.
The billionaire’s “program of terror” started with Guo allegedly making Rui “work until 2 a.m. or 4 a.m. seven days a week — depriving her of any real opportunity to sleep.”
Then he tried to force himself on her in the cinema room of his $68 million penthouse at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel on Fifth Avenue, the suit says.
Rui “narrowly avoided rape on this one occasion” until “not long after” when she woke up with Guo “on top of her and attempting to separate her legs,” the suits says. She yelled at him to stop but he refused and “engaged in forced sexual intercourse with [Rui] without her consent, according to court papers.
“After this violence concluded [he] left [her] alone, bleeding in her bed,” the suit says.
A second alleged rape occurred in Guo’s London home when he locked her in a room, threw her onto the floor and tore at her clothing.
Rui begged him to stop, but he “coldly responded that [Rui] must stop shouting,” the suit says.
She eventually fled to the Chinese embassy earlier this year.
The suit does not includes dates for the incidents and Rui never contacted U.S. authorities about the alleged assaults.
But she has filed a criminal complaint in China, her New York attorney Lisa C. Solbakken told The Post.
“Defendant’s decision to flee China and take up residence in the United States is one that insulates him from answering for his inhumane and egregious conduct,” Solbakken said.
“Our courts are entitlted to hold him accountable for his wrongs,” she said.
Rui is one of at least five recent suits filed against Guo in New York. Guo believes the suits are orchestrated by the Chinese government, which he said is trying to silence him for exposing corruption in his home country.
He’s recently applied for political asylum in the U.S.
Guo did not immediately respond through an attorney.
Chinese billionaire sued for raping assistant in NYC
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/chinese-billionaire-sued-raping-assistant-nyc-article-1.3488744
BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 12:58 AM
AUG. 30, 2017 FILE PHOTO
A Twitter page of Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. The billionaire is being sued for allegedly raping his personal assistant. (ANDY WONG/AP)
A dissident Chinese businessman lured a woman to the U.S. for work as his personal assistant — and then raped her, a lawsuit filed Monday alleges.
Rui Ma, now 28, says in her Manhattan Supreme Court suit that she was working for one of billionaire Guo Wengui’s companies in China when she was summoned to meet him in New York City.
When she arrived, she says, Guo said she was going to work as his personal assistant.
Guo, who also goes by Miles Kwok, took her passport and routinely overworked her, all while becoming increasingly physically aggressive, Ma claims in her suit. She further alleges Guo raped her on two occasions.
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When Ma was working at his home in London, she managed to escape to the Chinese embassy, she claims.
After Ma returned home to China, she filed criminal charges against him there, court papers state.
Lawyers for Guo could not immediately be reached.
Guo, who is seeking asylum in the U.S. for having criticized Chinese officials, did not immediately respond to a message left at his residence in the Sherry-Netherland hotel in Midtown.
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Former assistant accuses exiled Chinese tycoon of rape in lawsuit
Philip Wen
BEIJING (Reuters) – A former personal assistant to an exiled Chinese-born billionaire, who has made claims of high-level Communist Party corruption, has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing him of raping her, court documents show.
FILE PHOTO: Billionaire businessman Guo Wengui speaks during an interview in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
In the civil complaint lodged with the New York Supreme Court on Monday, the 28-year-old woman said she was “lured” by the businessman, Guo Wengui, to New York under the guise of a one-week business trip.
Instead, she was held “captive” and ultimately subjected to “repeated acts of mental cruelty and sexual violence”, the suit says. She is seeking $140 million in compensation.
Guo, who lives in New York, denied the accusation, describing it as “fake”.
The complaint says the woman is a Chinese national who was employed by one of Guo’s China-based companies. She was told upon arrival in New York that she would work as one of the real estate tycoon’s personal assistants, the complaint, reviewed by Reuters, says.
It said Guo, also known as Miles Kwok, “forcibly took away” the woman’s passport, threatened her, monitored her internet usage and restricted access to her phone and laptop computer.
The woman said she was subjected to verbal and physical abuse, which soon escalated to sexual assault, before she managed to escape to the Chinese embassy in London during a business trip with Guo.
After her return to China, the woman provided a statement and evidence of her allegations to police in China, the lawsuit said, without detailing the evidence. The Associated Press reported late last month that Chinese police were investigating the woman’s claims.
Guo refuted the accusation.
“Of course it’s fake,” he told Reuters. He said the “robbers of the country” engineered the allegations to “divert my attention, spread rumors and smear my reputation.”
Guo, who left China in 2014, has named senior Communist Party officials in a deluge of graft accusations via Twitter posts and video blogs, attracting a loyal online following. He has provided little evidence for his claims.
China calls Guo a criminal suspect, and articles in state media have accused him of crimes including bribery, fraud and embezzlement. At China’s request, Interpol issued a global “red notice” for Guo’s repatriation in April.
Guo lodged an application for political asylum in the United States last week.
Reporting by Philip Wen; Editing by Tony Munroe and Neil Fullick
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Rape allegations could derail exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui’s US asylum claims, says lawyer representing alleged victim
Guo insists civil claim for damages lodged in New York court is part of smear campaign by mainland authorities after series of corruption accusations
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2111527/rape-allegations-could-derail-exiled-chinese-tycoons-us
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 17 September, 2017, 1:07pm
UPDATED : Sunday, 17 September, 2017, 9:53pm
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The rape allegations against Guo Wengui, one of China’s most wanted exiles, are a relevant factor affecting the billionaire’s bid to seek political asylum in the US, an American lawyer representing the alleged victim has said.
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A civil suit was lodged in New York last week demanding US$140 million in compensation.
The alleged victim, 28, felt unsafe travelling to the US to give evidence against her former boss Guo, her New York-based lawyer, Lisa Solbakken told the South China Morning Post.
“When a government is processing asylum claims, they obviously need to know the character of the person,” Solbakken said, explaining what she said was an “absolutely relevant” link between her case and Guo’s asylum application.
But Solbakken, a business litigation specialist, stressed that she was not involved in asylum matters and they should be considered by the relevant authorities.
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Guo’s legal representative in New York, Josh Schiller, hit back at Solbakken’s remarks, calling them “nothing more than a further effort to defame” Guo and “part of a larger scheme by [China] to persecute him until he stops talking”.
Guo, 50, has in recent months unleashed a deluge of sensational, if mostly unverifiable graft accusations against senior Communist Party officials – including anti-corruption tsar Wang Qishan – via Twitter posts.
He has been the target of Chinese law enforcement agencies, which are understood to be preparing for a second red notice to Interpol, effectively a request to locate and provisionally arrest an individual pending extradition. A previous red notice was issued for corruption charges.
No extradition treaty exists between the US and China. The two sides need to engage in bilateral talks to repatriate any overseas fugitives back to their home country.
The last time Solbakken spoke to her client – who once worked for Guo – was Thursday.
Wang Qishan, the leading anti-corruption official, has been the subject of Guo’s allegations.
Photo: Xinhua
According to a recent report by Reuters, Guo insisted that the rape allegation was“fake”. Solbakken denied this by pointing to the victim’s willingness to publicise her name in the civil suit. (The South China Morning Post will not publish her name due to the ongoing criminal investigation in China.)
“She loses some of the protection that might be afforded her if she pursued justice criminally [in the US],” Solbakken said. “Criminally, there is some effort to protect the victim’s identity.”
Guo has claimed the civil charges mounted in the US were orchestrated by Chinese officials. He insisted he was the victim of a smear campaign aimed at stopping his bid for asylum and securing his return to China, although that prospect is less than certain given Guo does not hold any travel documents issued by Chinese authorities.
Solbakken said her client’s interests “are limited to having Mr Guo answer to criminal authorities for his acts, whether these criminal authorities are located in China or New York”.
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In response, Schiller, the lawyer for Guo, said: “China wouldn’t have jurisdiction over crimes that allegedly occurred in another country.”
He added that the rape complaint “lacks any actual evidence” and “fails to name a single witness while there would have been numerous witnesses that are constantly around Mr Kwok [Guo also goes by the name Miles Kwok] including his security detail”.
The victim lodged the civil complaint with the New York Supreme Court last Monday, saying she was “lured” by Guo to New York in 2015 under the guise of a one-week business trip.
Instead, Guo “forcibly took away” the woman’s passport, threatened her, monitored her internet usage and restricted access to her phone and laptop computer, according to the suit.
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Rape claim ‘could derail’ tycoon’s asylum bid in U.S.
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Billionaire Chinese Dissident Raped Woman and Held Her Captive, Suit Says
By Ben Fractenberg | September 12, 2017 10:23am
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A woman accused Chinese dissident billionaire Guo Wengui of raping her, according to a lawsuit.
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NEW YORK CITY — A dissident Chinese billionaire with a $68 million apartment overlooking Central Park raped a woman he forced to be his assistant while taking her passport to prevent her from leaving, according to a $20 million lawsuit filed by the woman in Manhattan Supreme Court Monday.
The woman, Rui Ma, 28, accused Guo Wengui, 50, of luring her from one of his “China-based affiliated entities” to New York under the guise of a business trip, before telling her she was now his personal assistant, could no longer return to China and turned abusive, the lawsuit stated.
“Over a period of several years [Wengui] carefully cultivated an image of himself as a cultured political dissident who stands up to — and exposes the rampant corruption within — the tyrannical government of the People’s Republic of China,” Ma charged in the suit.
“In fact, this crafted fiction serves not only to satisfy the ego of [Wengui] and those who affiliate with him; it further provides [Wengui] with a means to mask the campaign of intimidation and terror he unleashes regularly upon those few of his employees, like [the victim], who dare not submit themselves entirely to his domination.”
Wengui — who the suit claims also goes by the name Miles Kwok and owns a $68 million apartment in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel overlooking Central Park — has accused some of China’s top officials of corruption and is currently in living in New York on a tourist visa while he tries to get permanent residency, the New York Times reported on Sept. 7.
While portraying himself as a whistleblower, Wengui was “terrorizing” Ma, choosing when she could use her phone and computer, controlling her social media accounts, forcing her to work constantly with little sleep and calling her a “pig” and a “whore” whenever she made a mistake, she said in the lawsuit.
Wengui first attacked Ma inside the “cinema room” of his New York apartment, removing his pants before tearing at her skirt and battering her in the process, the suits says.
Soon after, he raped Ma after pressuring her to drink alcohol, the suits notes, though it’s unclear whether that incident occurred in New York.
“After this violence concluded, [Wengui] left [Ma] alone, bleeding in her bed,” the lawsuit states.
“[Ma] continued to live in constant fear of [Wengui] thereafter, remaining awake for as long as she could muster for fear that [Wengui] would again attack.”
He then raped her a second time before she was able to escape from his London home and flee to the Chinese Embassy, court papers stated.
Ma said she then spoke with Chinese authorities about the allegations.
An NYPD spokesman said the department did not have any records of a complaint made against Wengui.
A lawyer for Wengui said he is not representing him in this case and declined to comment.
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Aug 31, 2017 10:00 AM
Fugitive Billionaire Guo Wengui Accused of Rape: AP
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-08-31/101138813.html
By Han Wei
Fugitive businessman Guo Wengui is facing a series of criminal allegations including bribery, kidnapping, fraud and money laundering.
The Chinese police have launched an investigation against Guo Wengui after a former woman employee alleged he repeatedly raped her, adding a new element into the sprawling cases against the fugitive real-estate tycoon, according to the Associated Press.
Chinese police are requesting a second Interpol arrest notice for 50-year-old Guo, also known as Miles Kwok, for the rape claims by a 28-year-old former personal assistant, AP reported, citing two Chinese officials with direct knowledge of the investigation.
Guo and his representatives did not respond to repeated requests for comment, the AP said.
The latest investigation followed 19 major criminal cases initiated by Chinese prosecutors against Guo with allegations including bribery, kidnapping, fraud and money laundering, the AP said.
Police in central China opened the rape investigation on July 5 after the former Guo employee told police she was plucked from her human resources position at Guo’s real estate company in Hong Kong in 2015 and sent overseas to become his personal assistant. Over the next two years, she alleges she was raped several times in New York, London and the Bahamas by Guo. She alleged Guo demanded sex from female employees as a test of their loyalty.
At times, she alleged she was in virtual detention after Guo’s staff confiscated her smartphone, computer, passport and keys and forbade her from leaving her room in his luxury apartment in the high-end London neighborhood of Belgravia, the AP reported citing police documents.
The woman told AP she fled Guo’s apartment to the Chinese Embassy in London in April to apply for a new passport before returning to China.
The Chinese government is seeking Guo for alleged bribery and other wrongdoing and asked Interpol to issue a “red notice” seeking the arrest of him in April. He fled China in 2014 amid corruption investigations into his associates, including Ma Jian, a former vice minister of state security.
Guo is now believed to be living in the U.S., where he is also being sued by creditors, among others. Caixin investigations have found that Guo has continued to move capital among dozens of shell companies registered in Hong Kong, the U.S., Canada and the British Virgin Islands to hunt for profits in the Chinese market. Several of Guo’s employees have been sentenced in China for loan fraud since June.
Although the United States does not have an extradition agreement with China, Beijing hopes that a mounting body of alleged wrongdoing against Guo could sway the U.S. government against extending the businessman’s visa, which is believed to expire in October, the AP report said, citing unnamed Chinese officials.
In early August, one ex-business partner and four former employees of Guo stood trial in Dalian, Shandong province, for alleged embezzlement of $60 million. The defendants told the court that Guo was the mastermind behind a scheme to siphon money from a company to pay off Guo’s debts and buy personal luxuries.
Editor’s note: A Caixin report in 2015 revealed how Guo and Ma Jian, a former vice minister of state security, formed a close alliance, using national security power to meddle in business deals. In response to Guo’s subsequent attacks on Caixin, Caixin filed lawsuits against Guo and his companies, accusing him of fabricating and disseminating false information.
