Property tycoon Zhou Zhengyi faces new charges

时间：2007-08-20 06:17:16

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Aug. 18 - The Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate has charged property tycoon1 Zhou Zhengyi with misappropriation of funds, bribery2 and forging VAT3 receipts, a procuratorate source said on Friday.

 

Zhou, former president of Shanghai-based property firm Nongkai Development Group, was released from prison in May 2006 after completing a three-year sentence for fraud and manipulating the stock market.

 

But five months later, in October, Zhou was detained as prosecutors4 investigated the Shanghai social security fund scandal.

 

Shanghai courts began to hear cases of officials involved in the Shanghai social security fund scandal in June.

 

The second division of Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate charged Zhou at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court, the procuratorate source said.

 

However, the source did not give further details on the charges.

 

Zhou, 45, also known as Chau Ching-ngai, started business as a teenager in a wonton noodle shop. In 2002, Forbes estimated Zhou's wealth at about 320 million U.S. dollars.

 

Earlier this month, four prison officials in Shanghai were jailed for taking bribes5 and providing preferential treatment to Zhou during his incarceration6.

 

Shanghai's social security fund scandal was exposed to the public last year, with 3.7 billion yuan involved.

 

Investigators7 found the money had been illegally loaned, by a company of the municipal labor8 and social security bureau, to Shanghai Feidian Investment Development Co. Ltd, a company controlled by business tycoon Zhang Rongkun, number 16 on the Forbes China Rich List in 2005.

 

Zhang was the first person arrested in the Shanghai social security fund scandal, which also brought down a number of high-ranking officials including former Shanghai Party chief Chen Liangyu.

 
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1 tycoon EKkze     
n.有钱有势的企业家，大亨
参考例句：
  • The tycoon is on the verge of bankruptcy.那名大亨濒临破产的边缘。
  • The tycoon has many servants to minister to his needs.那位大亨有很多人服侍他。
2 bribery Lxdz7Z     
n.贿络行为，行贿，受贿
参考例句：
  • FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
  • He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
3 vat sKszW     
n.(=value added tax)增值税，大桶
参考例句：
  • The office is asking for the vat papers.办事处要有关增值税的文件。
  • His father emptied sacks of stale rye bread into the vat.他父亲把一袋袋发霉的黑面包倒进大桶里。
4 prosecutors a638e6811c029cb82f180298861e21e9     
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人
参考例句：
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
5 bribes f3132f875c572eefabf4271b3ea7b2ca     
n.贿赂( bribe的名词复数 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂v.贿赂( bribe的第三人称单数 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂
参考例句：
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • corrupt officials accepting bribes 接受贿赂的贪官污吏
6 incarceration 2124a73d7762f1d5ab9ecba1514624b1     
n.监禁，禁闭；钳闭
参考例句：
  • He hadn't changed much in his nearly three years of incarceration. 在将近三年的监狱生活中，他变化不大。 来自辞典例句
  • Please, please set it free before it bursts from its long incarceration! 请你，请你将这颗心释放出来吧！否则它会因长期的禁闭而爆裂。 来自辞典例句
7 investigators e970f9140785518a87fc81641b7c89f7     
n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 labor P9Tzs     
n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦
参考例句：
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

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