密码保护：Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui hit with new RICO conspiracy charge 2024.1.4 ☑Press ☑U.S.,美国
Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday added an expansive racketeering count against Chinese financier Guo Wengui, who is accused of orchestrating a $1 billion fraud conspiracy.
Wengui, an associate of American conservative media strategist Steve Bannon, was arrested in March 2023 at his apartment in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in Manhattan, where a fire subsequently broke out later that day as FBI agents were still searching it.
Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have accused Wengui — also known as Miles Guo and Ho Wan Kwok — of carrying out a complex conspiracy to defraud thousands of his online followers out of over $1 billion dollars by lying to prospective investors and promising them outsized returns if they invested, or provided money to his Chinese media platform GTV, and other companies, including Himalaya Farm Alliance, G CLUBS, and the Himalaya Exchange.
Wengui’s first indictment included criminal counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, securities fraud, international money laundering and obstruction of justice.
The superseding indictment unsealed Thursday morning adds an additional count of racketeering conspiracy under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, which carries a 20 year maximum sentence and forfeiture of any ill-gotten gains from the criminal activity.
➤周四，纽约联邦检察官对郭文贵增加了一项敲诈勒索罪名，郭文贵被指控策划了一场 10 亿美元的欺诈计划。
纽约南区检察官指控文贵（又名文贵先生和何万国）实施了一项复杂的阴谋，通过向潜在投资者撒谎并向他们承诺巨额资金，诈骗了数千名在线粉丝超过 10 亿美元。
文贵的第一份起诉书包括共谋、电信欺诈、证券欺诈、国际洗钱和妨碍司法公正等刑事罪名。
周四上午公布的替代起诉书根据诈骗影响和腐败组织 (RICO) 法规增加了一项共谋敲诈勒索罪名，该法规最高可判处 20 年徒刑，并没收犯罪活动中的任何不义之财。
检察官表示，从 2018 年到至少 2023 年 3 月，文贵及其同谋“通过一系列复杂的欺诈和虚构业务和投资机会，将数十个相互关联的实体联系起来，实施了一项犯罪活动，这使得被告及其同谋共谋索取、洗钱和挪用受害者资金。”
据检察官称，他误导了一种名为“H-Coin”、“Himalaya Coin”或“HCN”的加密资产证券的潜在投资者，错误地声称 H-Coin 的 20% 价值是由黄金支持的，并且他将亲自赔偿投资者的任何潜在损失。
联邦 RICO 法案起源于 1970 年，作为打击有组织犯罪的工具。该法律使检察官能够针对犯罪组织内的高层人士，而不仅仅是处理肮脏工作的低层人员。
➤老美检察官起诉书（49页）
SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
V.
HO WAN KWOK,
a/k/a “Miles Guo,”
a/k/a “Miles Kwok,”
a/k/a “Guo Wengui,”
a/k/a “Brother Seven,”
a/k/a “The Principal,”
a/k/a “Boss,”
KINMINGJE,
a/k/a “William Je,”
a/k/a “Yu Jianming,” and
YANPINGWANG,
a/k/a “Yvette,”
a/k/a “Y,”