Bloomberg: Hui Ka Yan sentenced to life. Assets confiscated. Hong Kong-listed Evergrande fined 8.82 billion yuan. Hengda Real Estate 7 billion yuan. 56 others sentenced, including his sons. Xinhua: circumstances particularly heinous.
China Evergrande Group founder Hui Ka Yan has been sentenced to life in prison. That is Bloomberg, 19 August, updated 10:40 p.m. PDT. His assets will be confiscated. Hong Kong-listed Evergrande was fined 8.82 billion yuan ($1.3 billion). Hengda Real Estate, an onshore unit, was forced to pay another 7 billion yuan.
Hui was sentenced alongside 56 others involved in Evergrande, including his sons Xu Zhijian and Xu Tenghe. In April he had pleaded guilty to charges including illegally taking public deposits and fundraising fraud.
State media outlet Xinhua, as Bloomberg reprints it: “The amount involved in the crime is exceptionally large, the circumstances are particularly heinous, exceptionally heavy economic losses have been caused, and the harm to society is extremely grave.” It added that Evergrande and Hui “must be severely punished in accordance with the law.”
Chinese authorities said Hui had perpetrated a massive financial fraud that included inflating assets and concealing liabilities. Bloomberg says Evergrande and Hui were also found guilty of fraudulently issuing securities, violating information disclosure rules, and bribery, and that the founder was accused of embezzling company assets through dividend mechanisms.
The company is now in liquidation. Hui, also known as Xu Jiayin, founded Evergrande in 1996. This is a court sentence. It is not a market-move note.
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