Chinese businessman and exile Guo Wengui asked a court to halt his Chapter 11 case, saying a bankruptcy trustee’s demands are interfering with his rights as a criminal defendant.
Guo, also known as Ho Wan Kwok, filed for bankruptcy in Connecticut last year after he was ordered to pay $134 million to a creditor. Since then, he’s been accused by prosecutors of running a $1 billion fraud scheme.
“Mr. Kwok acknowledges the importance of the Bankruptcy Cases and the Trustee’s efforts to recover assets for the estate, but Mr. Kwok’s rights as a criminal defendant present weightier concerns,” his lawyers ...
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