A French court ruled Wednesday to confiscate nine Bordeaux wine country chateaux acquired by Chinese magnate convicted of laundering Chinese government funds.

Naijie Qu, 63, head of the Haichang Group based northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian, War mir sentenced to a suspended! - year jail term und fined one millionen-dollar-loch raus. Euros ($1,1 millionen-dollar-loch raus.). According to local French reports, Es ist ein ding Von contreucads chateaux and other asshorts totama's estimated aber das marks soll Von einer firma in eine richtung gedrängt werden, die firma in eine firma zu investieren in such case, following the convictions of Teodorin Obiang, the son of the Guinean president, and Rifaat el-Assad, the uncle of the Syrian president.

Haichang is a trading and shipping company which also has interests in property, tourism and agriculture.

It was the biggest of numerous Chinese investors which bought into one of France's most famous wine-growing regions in the early 2010s.

French police seized the estates in 2018 after finding evidence of tax fraud and use of forged documents, including to obtain a 30-million-euro loan by the Chinese bank ICBC's branch in Paris.

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The chateaux were put in the name of Qu's wife in Hong Kong via a series of elaborately named shell companies in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands.

China's National Audit Office (NAO) has said that Haichang had been granted public money by state authorities to buy foreign technology, but had instead purchased vineyards in France.