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http://www.scmp.com/business/article/2103348/clarification-regarding-column-hows-singaporean-investor-peninsulas-holding
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http://wasabi-now.com/article/63f65cb0b90467616efd873005de4301
How’s the buyer of The Peninsula’s owner linked to Xi Jinping’s right
hand man?
July 18, 2017 at 04:16 PMSCMP
When Chua Hwa Por (蔡華波) began buying a stake in Hong Kong & Shanghai
Hotels – the holding company of The Peninsula – early this year, he could
not have imagined the troubles that would follow.
It was supposed to be just another item on a routine shopping list that most
princelings, or well-connected ones from mainland China must have, to begin
their Hong Kong venture.
The 32-year-old already owns a race horse at more than £1 million (HK$9
.63 million), a HK$120 million (US$15 million) bungalow in Stanley, a HK$500
million office on the top floor of The Center, and a listed company to
build his empire with. So the luxury hotel group controlled by the Kadoorie
family is just another prime asset to park his spare cash in.
[The Peninsula hotel in Beijing. Photo: SCMP] Since late June, Chua’s stake
has gradually climbed from below 5 per cent to 11.79 per cent, costing an
estimated HK$1.5 billion. He didn’t even bother to hide behind an
investment group or fund.
What Chua has underestimated is the interest in himself that the deal has
stirred up.
In his regulatory filing, Chua portrayed himself as a Singaporean with nine
years’ experience in investment. But his wealth was too vast, and his
Zhejiang accent didn’t quite jive with someone from Lion City.
A Hong Kong magazine tailed him for days before reporting last week that
Chua had filed the same residential address on Stanley Beach Road as a woman
named Li Qianxin (栗潛心), through a company called Chua & Li Membership.
Li owns the house via a company called Century Joy, according to Company
Registry and Land Registry records, obtained by Money Matters.
The woman’s Chinese surname is rare, so rare in fact that it’s not even
among the 100 most-used family names for the entire Chinese population. You
’ll have to look to number 249 to find the surname, used among just an
estimated 300,000 people in the entire country.
[Chua’s Limitless galloping on the all weather track at Sha Tin on February
17. Photo: SCMP] This is an illustrious clan, with prime ministers and high
officials through the centuries. The most famous, and highest-ranking Li
out of the current clan, would be Li Zhanshu (栗戰書), the right-hand man to
the Chinese president Xi Jinping.
His job titles are Director of the General Office of the Communist Party and
the Chief of the General Office of the National Security Commission,
roughly equivalent to the Chief of Staff in the US government. He’s one of
the most powerful men in the Communist Party and could be on the path to
promotion when the party meets this autumn to pick their leaders for the
next five years.
On paper, Li Qianxin’s name looks the same as Li Zhanshu’s daughter. How
is Chua, who owns 73.7 per cent of Tai United Holdings Ltd., related to an
up-and-coming Chinese state leader?
[Li Zhanshu (L), and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson at a U.S.-
China business roundtable in September 2015. Photo: Reuters] According to
Tai United staff, madam Li had been seen at the company on at least two
occasions giving instructions to employees. Neither he nor the company would
respond to queries.
Instead, Chua resigned as Tai United’s chairman and executive director on
July 11, citing other business engagement immediately followed the press
revelation.
Three days after his resignation, Chua and Li left for Beijing on a 7 am
flight, sources said, and have not been seen since in Hong Kong. Meanwhile,
Chua’s purchase of shares in Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels came to a halt as
of July 10, the day before he resigned from Tai United’s board.
You may find these reactions comical. Yet, with a few months to go before
the Communist Party picks its leaders, it’s not hard to imagine everybody
on tippy toes, or the political shock caused by the revelation.
In Xi’s anti-corruption campaign, whoever that’s aiming for the next
leadership role will not want to be seen, or even to be rumoured, as the
father of a fat cat.
Whether Chua is indeed a princeling can’t be verified except through his
own mouth, but he did command enough clout to transform Tai United from a
distributor of medical devices into a financial powerhouse. Its business
description now says it’s in distressed assets management, tungsten mining,
commodities and securities trading. It also owns two real estate projects
in London.
That was the result of a HK$3.5 billion investment spree funded by his HK$3
billion investment and HK$1.3 billion in lending by financial firms
including Haitong Securities.
That was only a third of the HK$10 billion investment plan that Tai United
had pledged. Among them was the acquisition of a financial company in China.
Tai United’s management team comprises chairman Meng Zhaoyi, who used to
head the property insurance division at the People’s Bank of China and had
worked at Taiping Insurance.
Ye Fei the senior vice president is a former vice president at Taiping Life
Insurance while Xu Ke the executive director used to work for China Cinda
Asset Management.
This is not a team that any ordinary Singaporean private entrepreneur could
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