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Chinese Officials Confirm
Re-Arrest of Shanghai Tycoon
By JAMES T. AREDDY
December 8, 2006 5:04 a.m.
SHANGHAI -- Chinese officials confirmed that they have re-arrested a Shanghai tycoon first jailed in 2003, making him the latest prominent figure in China's commercial capital to fall amid a corruption probe involving the city's pension system.
Zhou Zhengyi, once one of China's wealthiest people, was arrested in November "to investigate some problems of his," a spokesman for the Shanghai government said Friday. The spokesman, who declined to be named, was confirming a report from the official Xinhua news agency, although the Xinhua report said Mr. Zhou has been "in custody" since October.
The spokesman wouldn't elaborate on Mr. Zhou's case, and it isn't clear if it is related to the broader scandal now afflicting Shanghai. But his arrest came soon after the city's top official, Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Liangyu, was dismissed for alleged corruption in an investigation into misuse of the city's $1.2 billion pension fund.
Mr. Zhou's latest arrest follows his release from prison in May after he was detained and imprisoned for three years for fraud and stock manipulation as part of a 2003 case that was then considered one of Shanghai's biggest ever property and banking scandals. Mr. Zhou's three-year sentence, handed down by a Shanghai court in 2004, surprised many observers as lenient given the scope of the scandal. In addition, Mr. Zhou was apparently credited with time served and released only two years after the sentence was issued. He quickly returned to work this year on a new office tower near Shanghai's famous Bund district.
Mr. Zhou's first case also involved his wife, Mo Yuk-ping, who earlier this year was sentenced in Hong Kong to three-and-a-half years in prison for conspiring with her husband in activity related to his control of his companies, including Shanghai Land Holdings Ltd. Ms. Mo was in Hong Kong when the case broke in 2003. Mr. Zhou faces an outstanding arrest warrant in Hong Kong, where his Chinese name is romanized as Chau Ching-ngai.
Others were also caught up in the case. In August 2005, a Chinese court handed a suspended life sentence to Liu Jinbao, the former head of Bank of China Ltd.'s Hong Kong branch, in a case that included allegations of illegal loans to Mr. Zhou. Also, Shanghai lawyer Zheng Enchong, who had sued Mr. Zhou over compensation issues related to property development, was detained around the time of Mr. Zhou's first arrest in 2003 for allegedly leaking state secrets to foreign reporters about his work. He has also spent three years in jail, and was released earlier this year.
The Shanghai scandal that led to the party secretary's removal involves alleged misappropriation of up to a third of the pension fund, including some of which was allegedly loaned out to property developers. The only person known to have been actually arrested in that case is a 33-year-old tycoon, Zhang Rongkun, who like Mr. Zhou was little known before he emerged with investments in Shanghai that made him among the richest people in China. Mr. Zhou started as a noodle vendor before climbing China's rich lists in the 1990s.
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