LOOK WHO OWNS A PIECE OF A CHINESE FIRM SANCTIONED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: Despite it being buried in several layers of corporate registry obfuscation, Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Alana Goodman uncovered Hunter Biden’s 10 percent stake in Bohai Harvest RST.
“Bohai Harvest RST Shanghai Equity, an investment firm that Hunter Biden owns a stake in, initially invested in Megvii, a sanctioned Chinese tech company that specializes in facial recognition software, in 2017, according to the company’s website. The firm holds a nearly 2 percent stake in Megvii through two holding companies, according to a prospectus filed by Megvii as part of its application for a listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange last year,” Goodman reports.
“Last year, the U.S. Department of Commerce added Megvii to its list of sanctioned entities that were ‘implicated in human-rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups.'”
Some investments are more equal than others.