乐视创始人被列入中国“失信”名单
The Chinese founder of LeEco, who once vowed to take on Tesla with his self-driving vehicle ventures, has been blacklisted on China’s national debtors’ database. Jia Yueting began the year by showing off an electric car built by Faraday Future, a US tech company of which he is the only known investor. He ended it by being put on China’s national blacklist of “discredited” people, enforced by the country’s Supreme Court, which can penalise the worst-offending serial debtors with punishments such as travel bans. LeEco has suffered severe financial difficulties this year and was forced to abandon a series of deals, such as its $2bn acquisition of California-based Vizio. Mr Jia earlier this year resigned as chief executive of the Shenzhen-listed arm of the company, a pioneer in the rapidly growing video-streaming market in China. Beijing’s Number Three Intermediate People’s Court issued the notice to blacklist Mr Jia on Monday for owing the investment firm Ping An Securities Rmb462.1m, according to the national credit database. Earlier this year a Chinese court froze millions of dollars of LeEco’s and Mr Jia’s assets. LeEco did not respond to a request for comments. Mr Jia said his resignation as chief executive was in order to focus his efforts on bringing Faraday Future’s FF91 vehicle to market. The blacklisting raises further pressure on Faraday Future to find alternative backers. According to the national credit database, Mr Jia also owes Ping An Rmb13.2m in interest payments and fees for reneging on payment, as well as Rmb3.99m in legal fees. Since 2013 China’s Supreme Court has operated a “discredited” blacklist of long-term debtors who have been ordered to repay what they owe. Earlier this year the court announced that all 6.73m people on the list have been banned from boarding flights and high-speed trains. |