Thursday, June 9, 2011

CHINA - Ai Weiwei charged with tax evasion

According to the official news agency Xinhua, quoted by the Hong Kong newspaper Mingpao, the artist Ai Weiwei is accused of tax evasion, which would have been guilty Development Corporation cultural Fake it de facto control. The offense would cover a large sum of money and the company had falsified its accounts.

Ai Weiwei was arrested April 3 at Beijing airport. It has been without news of him for 40 days, and his wife was finally allowed to see him briefly on May 15 The authorities said they had opened an investigation for economic crimes.

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