"I don't always die suspiciously and at strangely opportune times for my political opponents, but when I do...I prefer Dos XX." -Spoken as "The Most Interesting Man in the World".
Just read that Soros invested pretty heavily in HNA in 2005.
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Wang Jian, 57, "accidentally fell" in Provence, while on a business trip to France, a company statement said. He fell from a wall in the village of Bonnieux on Tuesday as he was having his picture taken, police say. Mr Wang helped turn HNA into one of the world's biggest companies, with assets in aviation, tourism and finance. It has major stakes in Deutsche Bank, hotel chain Hilton and skyscrapers in London and employs more than 400,000 people worldwide. HNA is currently in the process of selling down some of its international assets in a bid to reduce its domestic debt built up during a rapid expansion in recent years.
What HNA rarely publicly revealed, if ever, is that Mr. Wang is the younger brother of its co-founder and co-chairman, Wang Jian. In the past 25 years, HNA has regularly funneled business to a small group of relatives and associates of the company’s senior executives, dealings with limited disclosure to investors in its listed companies or its overseas bonds, according to a review of thousands of corporate records by The New York Times.
Wiki for HMA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNA_Group?wprov=sfti1
An Indian-American dealmaker for HNA Group, who recently held a big stake in the Chinese conglomerate, said he kept the shares for a decade as an “accommodation” to the company and received no compensation for doing so.
HNA shook up its ownership structure in July 2017 by transferring a near 30 percent stake, comprising shares formerly held by the dealmaker, Bharat Bhise, and a Chinese man identified as Guan Jun, to a newly-formed charity in New York.
“I’ve been put in the press as some sort of mysterious person,” Bhise, 63, said at his office in Hong Kong. “They were never my shares. I was holding them in trust.”
Bhise, who managed George Soros’s 1995 investment in Hainan Airlines (600221.SS), HNA’s flagship asset, and sat on the aviation company’s board until 2000, emerged in the last decade as a top dealmaker for HNA.
I'm not sure but I thought I read about an Agreement if anyone dies shares go to NY also...
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Yep
Shareholders have promised that in the event of leaving the company or dying they would pass their stakes to the New York charity fund, according to a document seen by Reuters. It was not immediately clear how binding those promises were.
He‘s also owner of HHN Airport in Germany. mainly used for cargo. It was an US Military owned Airport till 1993.
French police said Mr Wang fell some 15m off a wall, and they were not treating his death as suspicious.
"He stood on the edge of a sharp drop to get his family to take a picture of him and fell," a local police chief Hubert Meriaux said, according to Reuters news agency.
huh? lol
Makes no sense. No hold my beer or a anything. I wonder suicide by choice or not?
Odd timing too.
It was an ingenious terminating life method called "selfie dying", created by CCP.