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2012-10-28 06:43:25 UTC
lawyers of Madame BUN RANY HUN SEN in Cambodia also
says Claims about BUN RANY 's Dealings in RED RUBY form
PAILIN is Completely false .
says Claims about BUN RANY 's Dealings in RED RUBY form
PAILIN is Completely false .
Lawyers for China premier's family deny "hidden riches" claim
Reuters – 20 mins agohttp://news.yahoo.com/lawyers-china-premiers-family-deny-hidden-riche...
Reuters/Reuters - China's Premier Wen Jiabao waves during the European
Union-China summit at the Egmont Palace in Brussels September 20,
2012. REUTERS/Laurent Dubrule
BEIJING (Reuters) - Lawyers representing the family of Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao have rejected claims made by the New York Times on Friday
that they have accumulated at least $2.7 billion in "hidden riches",
Hong Kong media reported on Sunday.
The New York Times, citing corporate and regulatory records, reported
on Friday that Wen's mother, siblings and children had amassed the
majority of their wealth since Wen was named Vice Premier in 1998.
In a statement issued late on Saturday and carried by Hong Kong
television as well as the South China Morning Post and Sing Tao Daily
newspapers, Bai Tao of the Junhe Law Office and Wang Weidong of the
Grandall Law Firm said the wealth "does not exist".
They also denied that Wen had acted improperly or engaged in business
activities himself, and said his relatives had not profited in any way
from his tenure as premier and had no influence on Wen's "formulation
and execution of policies".
The statement said Wen's mother had never received any income or
property apart from her salary and pension.
Telephone calls made to the law firms by Reuters were not answered.
The Times' report said the names of family members "have been hidden
behind layers of partnerships and investment vehicles involving
friends, work colleagues and business partners".
It said his family's holdings include a Beijing villa development
project, a tire factory in northern China, a company involved in
building some of the venues for Beijing's 2008 Olympics including the
"Bird's Nest" main stadium, and Ping An Insurance, one of the world's
largest financial services companies.
The New York Times report came at a sensitive time for Beijing, with
China about to undergo a once-in-a-decade change of leadership in
which Wen will step down as premier.
The newspaper's websites in English and Chinese were immediately
blocked in China, and searches for the New York Times as well as the
names of Wen's children and wife were blocked on China's main Twitter-
like microblog service.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily briefing on Friday
that the report "smears China's name and has ulterior motives".
(Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)
Reuters – 20 mins agohttp://news.yahoo.com/lawyers-china-premiers-family-deny-hidden-riche...
Reuters/Reuters - China's Premier Wen Jiabao waves during the European
Union-China summit at the Egmont Palace in Brussels September 20,
2012. REUTERS/Laurent Dubrule
BEIJING (Reuters) - Lawyers representing the family of Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao have rejected claims made by the New York Times on Friday
that they have accumulated at least $2.7 billion in "hidden riches",
Hong Kong media reported on Sunday.
The New York Times, citing corporate and regulatory records, reported
on Friday that Wen's mother, siblings and children had amassed the
majority of their wealth since Wen was named Vice Premier in 1998.
In a statement issued late on Saturday and carried by Hong Kong
television as well as the South China Morning Post and Sing Tao Daily
newspapers, Bai Tao of the Junhe Law Office and Wang Weidong of the
Grandall Law Firm said the wealth "does not exist".
They also denied that Wen had acted improperly or engaged in business
activities himself, and said his relatives had not profited in any way
from his tenure as premier and had no influence on Wen's "formulation
and execution of policies".
The statement said Wen's mother had never received any income or
property apart from her salary and pension.
Telephone calls made to the law firms by Reuters were not answered.
The Times' report said the names of family members "have been hidden
behind layers of partnerships and investment vehicles involving
friends, work colleagues and business partners".
It said his family's holdings include a Beijing villa development
project, a tire factory in northern China, a company involved in
building some of the venues for Beijing's 2008 Olympics including the
"Bird's Nest" main stadium, and Ping An Insurance, one of the world's
largest financial services companies.
The New York Times report came at a sensitive time for Beijing, with
China about to undergo a once-in-a-decade change of leadership in
which Wen will step down as premier.
The newspaper's websites in English and Chinese were immediately
blocked in China, and searches for the New York Times as well as the
names of Wen's children and wife were blocked on China's main Twitter-
like microblog service.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily briefing on Friday
that the report "smears China's name and has ulterior motives".
(Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)