Chinese Tycoon's Daughter Challenges Hong Kong Over Asset Freeze
- Guo Wengui, family in $4.2 billion investigation, company says
- Businessman in exile is prominent critic of Chinese leaders
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The daughter of exiled Chinese property tycoon Guo Wengui is seeking the release of assets that she says Hong Kong police have frozen as part of a probe into whether the family laundered $4.2 billion through local companies.
The conflict is the latest twist in the saga of Guo, also known as Miles Kwok, a mainland Chinese businessman and prominent critic of the government in Beijing. Living in exile in the U.S. since 2015, Guo is known for lobbing allegations of political corruption involving high-level officials from the ruling Communist Party, including via YouTube and Twitter.