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"China's Warren Buffett" Guo Guangchang Disappears

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On November 18, Guotai Junan Chairman and CEO Yim Fung went "missing." 

"We can't find him," the broker said, flatly. 

Three weeks later, Citic Securities - China's largest brokerage - lost all contact with Jun Chen, their head of investment banking, and Jianlin Yan, who runs investment banking at the company's overseas unit. 

Where did Yim, Jun, and Jianlin "disappear" to you ask? Well we know Yim was detained in connection with a graft investigation involving Yao Gang, vice chairman of China's securities regulator and given what we know about the Politburo's renewed push crackdown on market "manipulators", sellers, and those suspected of frontrunning purchases by the "national" plunge protection team over the summer, it's likely Jun and Jianlin suffered the same fate as Gang Xu, another Citic executive who was "summoned" by authorities back in August. 

On Thursday, we learn that yet another high profile businessman has apparently vanished and this time, it's none other than "China's Warren Buffett," Guo Guangchang (worth some $7 billion at last count) whose conglomerate Fosun International is morphing into an insurance-focused investment group. Fosun spent more than $6 billion buying stakes in 18 overseas companies between February and July. 

"Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang, chairman of conglomerate Fosun Group, is unreachable," Bloomberg reports, citing Caixin.

The company says it's "handling the situation."


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