Economics

Case of Missing Broker Shows China Risks Coming to Hong Kong

  • Guotai Junan International's CEO not heard from since Nov. 18
  • Disappearance came amid probes into China's finance industry

Missing Chinese Billionaire May Be Assisting Probe

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One month after the head of a Hong Kong brokerage vanished, his whereabouts remain a mystery.

Those who suspect Yim Fung, the missing chairman and chief executive officer of Guotai Junan International Holdings Ltd., was pulled in to assist authorities with an investigation in mainland China include Christopher Cheung, a Hong Kong lawmaker who represents the finance industry -- and who’d been due to attend a dinner with Yim on the day he was reported missing.