Billionaire appears to have been asked to pressure friend to return to China to help pursue out-of-favour officialThe Chinese regime enlisted Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba, in an intimidation campaign to press a businessman to help in the purge of a top official, documents seen by the Guardian suggest.The businessman, who can be named only as “H” for fear of reprisals against his family still in China, faced a series of threats from the Chinese state, in an attempt to get him to return home from France, where he was living. They included a barrage of phone calls, the arrest of his sister, and the issuing of a red notice, an international alert, through Interpol. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/29/how-china-apparently-involved-jack-ma-in-push-to-prosecute-out-of-favour-official
Author : Maeve McClenaghan and Tom Burgis
Publish date : 2025-04-29 04:00:00
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Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma implicated in intimidation campaign by Chinese regime
