Chinese Exile’s Legal Foe Calls Bankruptcy Filing ‘Astonishing’

The insolvency case of Guo Wengui, the exiled Chinese businessman, got off to raucous start Tuesday when a longstanding creditor called the move “astonishing” and signaled it would wage an aggressive fight in bankruptcy court.

Guo, a former partner of Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, filed for bankruptcy last month after moving a yacht from New York waters, a shift that would keep it out of the reach of creditors, and then facing a $134 million penalty for taking that step. Guo’s biggest creditor is Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund, which made a loan of $30 million to the ...