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| **Guo Wengui**, also known as **Miles Guo**, **Ho Wan Kwok**, **Miles Kwok**, **Brother Seven** and **The Principal**,((//23 CRIM 118.// (2023, March 6). Cryptome; United States District Court Southern District of New York. https://web.archive.org/web/20230405092411/https://cryptome.org/2023/03/kwok-002.pdf)) is a Chinese billionaire based in [[united_states:New York]]. | **Guo Wengui**, also known as **Miles Guo**, **Ho Wan Kwok**, **Miles Kwok**, **Brother Seven**, **Guo Haoyun** and **The Principal**,((//23 CRIM 118.// (2023, March 6). Cryptome; United States District Court Southern District of New York. https://web.archive.org/web/20230405092411/https://cryptome.org/2023/03/kwok-002.pdf)) is a Chinese billionaire based in [[united_states:New York]]. |
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| Guo is the registered or functional owner of a number of companies including [[GTV Media Group]], [[G Clubs|G|CLUBS]], [[G Fashion|G|Fashion]] and [[G Music|G | Music]], and is an investor in [[GETTR]]. | Guo is the registered or functional owner of a number of companies including [[GTV Media Group]], [[G Clubs|G|CLUBS]], [[G Fashion|G|Fashion]] and [[G Music|G | Music]], and is an investor in [[GETTR]]. |
| Guo was imprisoned in 1989, and upon his release, took a job with a [[china:Hong Kong]] entrepreneur named [[Xia Ping]]. | Guo was imprisoned in 1989, and upon his release, took a job with a [[china:Hong Kong]] entrepreneur named [[Xia Ping]]. |
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| In 1993, Guo ran a company called [[Big Boss Furniture]]. He then joined a project to build the first skyscraper hotel in [[china:henan:Zhengzhou]]. Around 2002, he relocated to [[china:Beijing]]. | In 1993, Guo ran a company called [[Big Boss Furniture]]. He then joined a project to build the first skyscraper hotel in [[china:henan:Zhengzhou]], the [[Yuda International Trade Centre]].((Business Insider. (2023, March 24). //Inside the “mysterious” life of exiled Chinese billionaire tycoon Guo Wengui.// South China Morning Post. http://archive.today/2023.03.24-092734/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3214670/inside-exiled-chinese-billionaire-guo-wenguis-mysterious-life-once-one-chinas-richest-men-business?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article&campaign=3214670)) Around 2002, he relocated to [[china:Beijing]]. |
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| According to the //[[New Yorker]],// Guo used [[sexual blackmail]] against Beijing's vice-mayor [[Liu Zhihua]] in order to secure a permit to build beside the site of the then-upcoming [[2008 Summer Olympics]]. The blackmail material was allegedly provided to Guo by a Chinese "spymaster" named [[Ma Jian]]. The plot of land was used to build the [[Pangu Plaza]]. | According to the //[[New Yorker]],// Guo used [[sexual blackmail]] against Beijing's vice-mayor [[Liu Zhihua]] in order to secure a permit to build beside the site of the then-upcoming [[2008 Summer Olympics]]. The blackmail material was allegedly provided to Guo by a Chinese "spymaster" named [[Ma Jian]]. The plot of land was used to build the [[Pangu Plaza]]. |
| Shortly after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Guo invited [[Orville Schell]], Director of the [[Center on U.S.-China Relations]] at the [[Asia Society]], for a dinner at the [[Pangu Plaza]]. He also reportedly had dinners with former Secretaries of State [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[George Shultz]], and met with [[Kim Jong-un]] on a trip to [[North Korea]].((Forsythe, M., & Weiser, B. (2023, March 30). //The Undoing of Guo Wengui, Billionaire Accused of Fraud on 2 Continents.// The New York Times. http://archive.today/2023.04.01-051058/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/us/guo-wengui-china.html)) | Shortly after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Guo invited [[Orville Schell]], Director of the [[Center on U.S.-China Relations]] at the [[Asia Society]], for a dinner at the [[Pangu Plaza]]. He also reportedly had dinners with former Secretaries of State [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[George Shultz]], and met with [[Kim Jong-un]] on a trip to [[North Korea]].((Forsythe, M., & Weiser, B. (2023, March 30). //The Undoing of Guo Wengui, Billionaire Accused of Fraud on 2 Continents.// The New York Times. http://archive.today/2023.04.01-051058/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/us/guo-wengui-china.html)) |
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| In or around 2013, [[Tony Blair]] agreed to introduce Guo to members of the [[House of Saud|Saudi Royal Family]], who allegedly gave Guo $3 billion.((Ungoed-Thomas, J. (2021, June 5). //Tony Blair helped secure a £47 million penthouse for Chinese tycoon.// Daily Mail Online. http://archive.today/2021.06.06-040515/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655837/Tony-Blair-helped-secure-47million-penthouse-New-York-billionaire-Chinese-tycoon.html)) | In or around 2013, [[Tony Blair]] agreed to introduce Guo to members of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family, who allegedly gave Guo $3 billion.((Ungoed-Thomas, J. (2021, June 5). //Tony Blair helped secure a £47 million penthouse for Chinese tycoon.// Daily Mail Online. http://archive.today/2021.06.06-040515/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655837/Tony-Blair-helped-secure-47million-penthouse-New-York-billionaire-Chinese-tycoon.html)) |
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| ==== Defecting from China ==== | ==== Defecting from China ==== |
| ===== External links ===== | ===== External links ===== |
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| | * [[https://opensea.io/collection/miles-guo|OpenSea]] |
| | * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/en/Guo-Wengui|White Rose Wiki]] |
| * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui|Wikipedia]] | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui|Wikipedia]] |
