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Author: Lao Xianliang
2020-12-23 07:05
Last update date: 2020-12-23 07:05
The United States has imposed sanctions on more than 60 Hong Kong companies and individuals. In addition to 29 Chinese and Hong Kong officials including Carrie Lam, there are also two Hong Kong-related Golden Triangle multinational drug trafficking syndicates, accused of manipulating drug trafficking by armed organizations, as well as human trafficking, prostitutes, drug trafficking, and trafficking in wild animals. animal.
The two groups once shared an office in Hu Zhong Building, Wan Chai in Hong Kong. A reporter from "Hong Kong 01" went there and found that the company was still operating.
One of the group’s chairman, Pu Jiang, was a former member of the CPPCC National Committee of the Hong Kong District; the other group’s chief brain, Zhao Wei, established the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos, with its own customs and its own laws.
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From 2000 to 2008, the United States imposed the "Foreign Drug Owners Sanctions Regulations" to sanction groups headed by the Burmese Wa drug lord WEI Hsueh Kang and the armed organization United Wa State Army (United Wa State Army), including Hong Kongers Pujiang (PO Kong), and three Hong Kong companies, "Xuanwei Group", "Dingshengtai Jewelry" and "Hongbang Development Jewelry" on which it serves as directors.
In 2018, the same regulation was used to sanction the "Zhao Wei transnational criminal group", including Zhao Wei, his wife Su Guiqin, and two Hong Kong companies: "Kings Romans International (HK)" (Kings Romans International (HK) Co.) , Limited) and "Kings Romans International Investment Co. Limited".
Search and reveal the Huzhong Building unit used by the two groups
The "Hong Kong 01" search also found that the two groups are related. The registered address of Kapok before March this year was owned by Xuanwei Group and located in a unit in the Huzhong Building in Wanchai.
Xuanwei and two associated jewelry companies use this office as their registered address.
In 2017, the international jewelry brand Cartier sold jewelry to Xuanwei four times and was punished by the US Treasury Department.
As for the Golden Kapok Group, the registered address will be changed from this unit to a secretarial company in Sheung Wan in March 2020.
On-site direct attack on staff certificates owned by Xuanwei Group
The reporter inquired at the above-mentioned unit. The scene was another fashion company. The person in charge pointed to a friend relationship and rented part of the space from Xuanwei.
"Their people don't work here. We share an office. We are another company. We are not Xuanwei. Xuanwei people are on vacation."
There are Chinese rosewood wooden furniture on the office site. "It seems to be making these furniture. They didn't use this office how they used it, so they rented a small room to us." The person in charge of the fashion company said that he had only met people from Sherwin Group once or twice and was not sure about the other party The nature of business.
Director of Xuanwei Pujiang, native of Yunnan, once served in the CPPCC National Committee of the Port
Pu Jiang, Chairman of Xuanwei Group, served as a member of the CPPCC National Committee of the Hong Kong District from 2013 to 2018.
Born in 1944, he was originally from Yunnan. Xuanwei Group operates jewelry, jade, wood, and real estate.
According to the company registry records, he and his wife Lin Lizhen, who is also a colleague of Xuanwei, reported to live in Causeway Bay, but the reporter could not contact them.
A CNN reporter visited Xuanwei's office in 2018. The staff said that Pujiang has lived in the mainland for a long time and the company has transformed into a funeral business.
According to mainland searches, Pujiang is the chairman of Beijing Xuanwei Wood, and also the chairman of the Wanfo Park Scenic Area Development Co., Ltd., a cemetery in Zunhua City, Hebei Province.
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Jin Kapok establishes special zone chairman Zhao Wei in Laos as chairman of special zone
As for the "Zhao Wei transnational criminal group" behind the U.S. accusation of Kim Kapok, it is even more involved in human trafficking, prostitutes, drug trafficking, and trafficking in wild animals.
Zhao Wei, born in 1952, was born in a rural area in Heilongjiang. He immigrated to Macau in the 1990s to do business, and in the 2000s he entered the Golden Triangle.
In 2008, Hong Kong’s Golden Kapok Group signed a 99-year agreement with the Lao government in 2008 to set aside 10,000 hectares at the border of Myanmar and Thailand to establish the "Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone" (Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone), Zhao Wei Serving as the chairman of the special zone, set up his own customs, and set his own laws.
Accepted an interview with CCTV to declare that drug control develops gambling tourism
Zhao Wei holds passports of China and Macau, as well as a Macau ID card. His wife Su Guiqin holds a Hong Kong ID card.
In the past ten years or so, Zhao Wei has been interviewed by CCTV and other media in a high-profile manner. "To turn the Golden Triangle into a peaceful and prosperous area of economic development, this page should be remembered in history."
His Golden Kapok Kingdom speaks Chinese and Renminbi, employs retired military police from the Mainland to serve as "special zone police", and focuses on casinos to attract gamblers from China and Southeast Asian countries. He once said "turning the small harm of the gambling industry into the great benefit of drug control. I think it's worth it."
Selling tiger skin and bear paws can be used for highly controversial cell therapy
Last year, he was interviewed by Taiwan Sanli TV Station, saying that he firmly opposes drugs, and that he will lead by example and lead all employees to have regular urine tests. "You are dealing with a package of drugs, and you have to catch a sick person. You have to go to jail and lose your head. We do travel. It’s a long-term development.”
There is also a zoo in this special economic zone that breeds tigers and black bears. In 2015, it was exposed by the international environmental investigation organization "Enviornment Investigation Agency" (Enviornment Investigation Agency). The breeding tigers are produced and sold. Tiger skins and tiger bone wine are sold in the special zone. The restaurants in the area can even eat bear paws and pangolins, so they are called "Sin City."
There are also hospitals in the local area, where gene cell treatments are prohibited and controversial in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The Wa State is an autonomous region within the Shan State of Myanmar. It has its own armed organization, the United Wa State Army, but it has been accused of drug trafficking and sanctioned by the United States.
The picture shows the 30th Anniversary Celebration Ceremony of the Wa State Peace Building in April 2019. The Wa State Coalition Army held a military parade.
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CNN published an investigative report at the end of 2018, alleging that the United Wa State Army (UWSA), an armed organization in northern Myanmar, controls a drug manufacturing plant, which is then shipped out through a large amount of infrastructure and tourism in the Golden Triangle, including Zhao Wei's use of Laos Casinos, laundering money for armed organizations.
In the face of various allegations, Zhao Wei accepted an interview with Asia Weekly last year, denying all the allegations, saying that the United States had ulterior motives, and that after the sanctions, several million yuan of chips in Macau Sands Casino and Hong Kong's HSBC bank deposits were frozen.
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