Xiao Jianhua's Lost Empire

Illustration by Luis Grañena

Five years after he was abducted from his service apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, Xiao Jianhua — once one of China’s wealthiest businessmen — has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for financial crimes. But what has happened to his fortune, once estimated at more than $100 billion? The Chinese financier, who was connected with the highest echelons of the Communist Party, amassed his wealth through the Tomorrow Group, a financial services conglomerate that he helped f

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