Published: June 3rd, 2017
By: Staff Writer
SKN PULSE – REN BIAO, the Chinese national who is on INTERPOL’S Wanted List for alleged financial crimes, was apprehended earlier this week. He was investigated by local law enforcement officers and subsequently released from police custody today, (June 3).
Biao, who is an economic citizen o St. Kitts and Nevis since 2013, is wanted in China for allegedly swindling millions of US dollars from a Chinese-state firm in that Southeast Asian country.
According to a police press release issued this afternoon, Ren Biao and his wife Qunqun Zheng, who is also an economic citizen of the Federation, were interviewed and subsequently released pending further enquiries.
The reason for them being taken into custody on Tuesday (May 30), according to the release, is due to the National Central Bureau of Basseterre receiving a formal notification on May 26, 2014 of a “Red Notice issued by INTERPOL for the arrest of a Mr. Biao Ren and Qunqun Zheng, Chinese Nationals wanted for allegations of forgery and fraud in China”.
The police categorically stated that the couple was detained for questioning “in connection with the Red Notice”.
