Wife of Chinese military officer at centre of corruption probe ‘mired in business debt, disputes’
Tenants of a metal wholesale market have staged protests trying to reclaim their money from Wu Fangfang, according to a newspaper report
A newspaper in China has made further allegations about the wife of a high-profile military officer under investigation for alleged corruption, claiming that her business is in debt and that she is embroiled in a dispute with tenants after construction work on one of her projects was halted.
Wu Fangfang, 45, is the wife of Major General Guo Zhenggang, a senior official in the Zhejiang provincial military command who the PLA announced earlier this month was under investigation for graft.
Guo is also the son of the former vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Guo Boxiong and his detention comes amid a sweeping government crackdown on corruption in the military.
Media in China reported earlier this month details of how she conducted an affair with Guo junior and got pregnant. Guo later divorced his wife and married Wu in 2012.
Wu successfully bid for the lease of a military-owned land in Zhejiang in 2007 with the money borrowed from several businessmen to build a fabric wholesale market, according to The Beijing News.
She then sold leases for market space to tenants and collected 800 million yuan (HK$1 billion).