Huang Guangyu is the wealthiest person in the country, having built up a fortune of $6.3bn (€5bn, £4.1bn) from the Gome electronics retail chain he founded. Yet for the past week he has been missing. Gome suspended its shares on Monday as rumours of Mr Huang's arrest swirled around the capital and company officials could not explain his whereabouts. Only late on Friday evening did the authorities give the first details about the case – a two-line statement saying Mr Huang was suspected of manipulating the share price of two small companies with links to Gome.
黃光裕是中國最富有的人,他創立的國美(Gome)電器零售連鎖店已經使他的財富成長到63億美元。不過,過去一週他卻一直沒有露面。由於整個北京城到處都是黃光裕被拘的傳言,而國美高階主管又無法解釋他的下落,國美股票於上週一停牌。直到上週五晚,官方纔首次透露該案細節——一份兩行字的聲明,稱黃光裕涉嫌操縱與國美有關聯的兩家小公司的股價。