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Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua set to go on trial in China

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Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, who went missing in Hong Kong five years ago, was due to go on trial in China on Monday, the Canadian embassy in Beijing said.

China-born Xiao, known to have links to China’s Communist Party elite, has not been seen in public since 2017 after he was investigated amid a state-led conglomerate crackdown.

The specifics of the probe haven’t been disclosed by officials. Xiao was whisked away in a wheelchair from a luxury Hong Kong hotel in the early hours with his head covered, a source close to the tycoon told Reuters at the time. Read more: Where is Xiao Jianhua?

Officials mum on abduction of Canadian-Chinese tycoon in 2017 “Global Affairs Canada, our home office, is aware that a trial in the case of Canadian citizen Mr.

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