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发帖数: 452 | 1 A civil suit was lodged in New York last week demanding US$140 million in
compensation.
The alleged victim, 28, felt unsafe travelling to the US to give evidence
against her former boss Guo, her New York-based lawyer, Lisa Solbakken told
the South China Morning Post.
“When a government is processing asylum claims, they obviously need to know
the character of the person,” Solbakken said, explaining what she said was
an “absolutely relevant” link between her case and Guo’s asylum
application.
But Solbakken, a business litigation specialist, stressed that she was not
involved in asylum matters and they should be considered by the relevant
authorities.
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homeland security chief to help him extend stay in US
Guo’s legal representative in New York, Josh Schiller, hit back at
Solbakken’s remarks, calling them “nothing more than a further effort to
defame” Guo and “part of a larger scheme by [China] to persecute him until
he stops talking”.
Guo, 50, has in recent months unleashed a deluge of sensational, if mostly
unverifiable graft accusations against senior Communist Party officials –
including anti-corruption tsar Wang Qishan – via Twitter posts.
He has been the target of Chinese law enforcement agencies, which are
understood to be preparing for a second red notice to Interpol, effectively
a request to locate and provisionally arrest an individual pending
extradition. A previous red notice was issued for corruption charges.
No extradition treaty exists between the US and China. The two sides need to
engage in bilateral talks to repatriate any overseas fugitives back to
their home country.
The last time Solbakken spoke to her client – who once worked for Guo –
was Thursday.
Wang Qishan, the leading anti-corruption official, has been the subject of
Guo’s allegations. Photo: Xinhua
According to a recent report by Reuters, Guo insisted that the rape
allegation was“fake”. Solbakken denied this by pointing to the victim’s
willingness to publicise her name in the civil suit. (The South China
Morning Post will not publish her name due to the ongoing criminal
investigation in China.)
“She loses some of the protection that might be afforded her if she pursued
justice criminally [in the US],” Solbakken said. “Criminally, there is
some effort to protect the victim’s identity.”
Guo has claimed the civil charges mounted in the US were orchestrated by
Chinese officials. He insisted he was the victim of a smear campaign aimed
at stopping his bid for asylum and securing his return to China, although
that prospect is less than certain given Guo does not hold any travel
documents issued by Chinese authorities.
Solbakken said her client’s interests “are limited to having Mr Guo answer
to criminal authorities for his acts, whether these criminal authorities
are located in China or New York”.
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In response, Schiller, the lawyer for Guo, said: “China wouldn’t have
jurisdiction over crimes that allegedly occurred in another country.”
He added that the rape complaint “lacks any actual evidence” and “fails
to name a single witness while there would have been numerous witnesses that
are constantly around Mr Kwok [Guo also goes by the name Miles Kwok]
including his security detail”.
The victim lodged the civil complaint with the New York Supreme Court last
Monday, saying she was “lured” by Guo to New York in 2015 under the guise
of a one-week business trip.
Instead, Guo “forcibly took away” the woman’s passport, threatened her,
monitored her internet usage and restricted access to her phone and laptop
computer, according to the suit. | M***7
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【在 z**********i 的大作中提到】
: A civil suit was lodged in New York last week demanding US$140 million in
: compensation.
: The alleged victim, 28, felt unsafe travelling to the US to give evidence
: against her former boss Guo, her New York-based lawyer, Lisa Solbakken told
: the South China Morning Post.
: “When a government is processing asylum claims, they obviously need to know
: the character of the person,” Solbakken said, explaining what she said was
: an “absolutely relevant” link between her case and Guo’s asylum
: application.
: But Solbakken, a business litigation specialist, stressed that she was not
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发帖数: 6896 | 3 这个不用老共搞他。米国也要把他的钱榨干。度论云也眼红。 | f******t
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