Former “Heaven and Earth” boss Qin Hui to be Deported Following Sentencing, Lawyers Paint Him as Victim – The Epoch Times

[The Epoch Times, 20 Giblean, 2024](The Epoch Times reporter Cai Rong said in New York) The former head of “Heaven and Earth” and Chinese tycoon Qin Hui will be sentenced on May 9, at which time he will fill out the Form I-407 to waive green card status obtained through fraud. On the day of the sentencing, Qin Hui is taken to the airport by federal agents and immediately and permanently deported. The specific country of return will depend on his valid passport and the country’s entry regulations, but China is not among them.

Qin Hui’s first wife is Lin Jing, the niece of Lin Jiamei, the wife of former Chinese President Li Xiannian He has many connections with Li Xiannian’s son-in-law, Chinese Communist Air Force General Liu Yazhou. His second wife, Liu Duo, is a member of the New York Mayor’s Asian Affairs Advisory Committee and works under the direction of Assistant Mayor of New York Cheng Qirong. Qin Hui admitted that he made donations during the mayoral campaign of New York Mayor Eric Adams and provided false information to election management agencies.

Qin Hui pleaded guilty to several offenses on March 18 this year, including campaign contributions in the name of others, immigration fraud and creating false identity documents. Since his arrest on October 2 last year, he has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, in the same building as Guo Wengui, another Chinese billionaire who is in exile abroad.

Yesterday (April 19), the prosecutor submitted a written statement, recommending an additional two years of supervised release after the conviction, and asking Qin Hui to “cooperate and follow her all instructions from the immigration authorities” and “not to return illegally without “US” authorization. Prosecutors pointed out that although Qin Hui will be deported immediately, “his erratic behavior indicates that a two-year supervised release period is necessary to prevent him from attempting to -re-entered illegally under false pretenses.”

Qin Hui’s lawyer submitted a 28-page sentencing memorandum, and three people wrote letters of support for him, including his brother-in-law Qu Jifa, Xu Maodong, chairman of the board of directors of Galaxy World Group who currently lives on the Island Long. , and a neurologist.

After his arrest last year, Qin Hui hired nine lawyers, including Henry E. Mazurek of New York Super Lawyers and former Assistant Attorney General Federal James Miskiewicz, and currently has six attorneys.

A sad childhood during the Cultural Revolution His first wife died young.

The sentencing memorandum submitted by Qin Hui’s lawyer details his personal history, including his childhood experiences during the Cultural Revolution, the death of his first wife, his business startup, his marriage to Liu Duo and his move to New York.

He explains that Qin Hui spent his youth in the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. His father was a soldier and was sent to serve in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. Due to China’s household registration system, Qin Hui followed his father from Sichuan to Beijing, while his mother and siblings lived in Sichuan. He was only 6 years old when he arrived in Beijing with foreigners. Later, he returned to Sichuan to reunite with his mother and siblings.

Later, he returned to Beijing to attend university, but his university life did not last long. During his sophomore year, the Tiananmen Square student movement began in June 1989. The university suspended classes and students returned home. He never returned to finish his studies.

Tan Hui and his first wife Lin Jing have known each other since they were in elementary school. Tan Hui and Lin Jing got married in 1992. After returning to Beijing, Tan Hui founded the famous Beijing luxury night club “Heaven and Earth”.

When Lin Jing died in 1996, Qin Hui asked his sister to bring their little girl to the United States. He started nightclubs in Beijing again and used this as a starting point to found SMI Holdings Ltd in 2001. This multimedia company was originally a Chinese cinema chain. He later took the company public and expanded the business area into film production, film and television studios and programming. Before the outbreak of the global disease, the company had more than 20,000 employees and he was the founder of the company and the main shareholder.

The memo mentioned that Qin Hui had a close relationship with his first wife’s family and had been supporting his elderly parents after she died of a brain aneurysm.

Qin Hui’s lawyers tried to portray him as a victim

In 2010, Qin Hui and Liu Duo got married and the family moved to New York. Qin Hui used his fame and wealth to do many charitable works in the Long Island community. Qin Hui’s friend Xu Maodong said in a letter of support that Qin Hui has donated more than 1.5 million US dollars to schools on Long Island and also made large donations to the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory. According to reports from Sing Tao and Overseas Chinese News in 2021, Liu Duo is the only Chinese director of the Long Island Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Association Committee and the Board of Directors of Green Vale School.

Liu Duo is a member of the New York Mayor’s Asian Affairs Advisory Committee under the leadership of Mayor Adams Zheng Qirong’s staff. Last November, the New York City Bureau of Investigation began investigating Zheng Qirong’s behavior in February this year, the FBI raided two of Zheng Qirong’s residences in the Bronx. Qin Hui admitted that since 2021, he has made illegal political donations to Adams and other politicians in his personal name.

However, in the sentencing memorandum, Qin Hui’s lawyers said he participated in illegal political donations to “maintain a respectable image” while suffering from huge debts and numerous lawsuits: “During financial difficulties, Qin Hui worked hard to support himself and his. Due to Liu Duo’s status in society he participated in “straw donation”.

Qin Hui is considered a member of Beijing’s high-ranking circle because of his relationship with the Li Xiannian family. Mainland media generally report that he operates in a light-hearted manner and knows insiders. However, in the sentencing memo his lawyer wrote for him, he was described as a victim of the Chinese Communist Party.

“He was not considered a friend of the government,” the memo read. ) was convicted of sedition.” and sentenced to life imprisonment.”

Qin Hui’s lawyer also said that due to his family history and the great wealth Qin Hui accumulated through the Star Cinema business in the mid-2000s, he was concerned about China’s security, so he obtained Hong Kong resident status. Kong under the pseudonym Li Mulin for protection. you and your family.

According to the prosecution’s lawsuit, in 2008, a Chinese government official gave him the nickname “Muk Lam Li”, including a Hong Kong ID card, a Chinese ID card and a Hong Kong passport. These documents contain a picture of Qin, but his date of birth is different from that of Qin. In September 2017, Qin Hui used the alias Li Mulin to transfer more than $5 million from China to Liu Duo’s US bank account, part of which was used to buy his luxury Manhattan apartment.

It will be shipped on May 9

The sentencing memorandum also mentioned that the epidemic and China’s zero clearance policy had dealt a heavy blow to Qin Hui’s media company, leading to the bankruptcy of the company and his personal financial problems. In addition, his personal debts continue to mount, assets have been seized in several jurisdictions, and creditors continue to apply for US enforcement of the court judgment. -Beijing justice. Faced with these pressures, his wife Liu Duo filed for divorce, and the family broke up.

At the time of his arrest, Qin Hui was separated from Liu Duo and had a lot of debt and many lawsuits. He faced civil lawsuits in New York and the British Virgin Islands, among other places, and his life was in trouble again.

He said he suffered three major blows: first, the death of his first wife when he was 28, then the global pandemic that destroyed his business empire, and finally, being permanently removed from the United States and separated from his three children in the United States. United States. .

Finally, Qin Hui described his difficult life in the MDC Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He was locked in a small cell, restricted from moving on suspicion of contraband, and was not allowed to leave the cell (two large sections were deleted from the document). Other prisoners said they found maggots and other insects in the food.

“He suffered for seven months and was physically and mentally exhausted,” the lawyer said. On behalf of Qin Hui, he requested that he be deported “as early as possible” and hoped to leave the United States by the end of April. The prosecutor had no objection. However, in the end the judge allowed him to be sentenced and released one day earlier than the originally scheduled date of May 10.

Judge Joan M. Azrack is scheduled to sentence Qin Hui at 12 noon on May 9 in Room 920 of the Federal Court for the Eastern District of New York on Long Island.

Editor-in-Chief: Sun Yun #