
Guo, who sometimes goes by Miles Kwok, is a mysterious and polarizing figure - a self-styled crusader against Chinese Communist corruption who has drawn the ire of the Chinese government but has also been sued by other Chinese dissidents. Guo's lawyer declined to comment, and Guo himself could not be reached. "The victims that have been calling the FBI, FTC, and local police agencies have been reporting fraud for a failure to return on promised investments," the official said. When they followed up, investigators in Washington learned FBI agents had been investigating the case for about a month. When Mercer Island police contacted the FBI, local investigators learned that Wengui appeared "to be a target of a large investigation personally and pertaining to his business," according to an official familiar with the matter. The Mercer Island PD incident report identified the suspect as Guo Wengui, describing him as a "billionaire" based out of New York, and noted there were other victims.

As of July 10, local authorities noted that no crime had been charged, and the FBI was investigating the matter.


The investor wired $500,000 to receive shares in the company by the end of May, but never received shares and wasn't able to get in contact with the reported suspect, the report stated. Last month, investigators with the Mercer Island Police Department in Washington state took an incident report from an unidentified victim who had become an investor in GTV Media Group Inc., with the promise it was launching a video-sharing platform, similar to YouTube, "that was supposed to go huge," according to an official familiar with the matter. News Bannon and 3 others charged in scheme stemming from 'We Build The Wall' campaign
