Uncategorized No trace of Fan Bingbing: China fears that its most popular actress is arrested
December 19, 2018 Nicholas Fogg 0Comment

In April, Lucy Turnbull, wife of the Australian prime minister, prepared a check for three million yuan for actress Fan Bingbing, the co-founder of a children&#39;s <a href='http://oprahcanwin.com/trump-pornstar-hush-money-1-a/'>charity center</a>.” /></p> <p>Fan Bingbing , one of the most famous actresses in China, has not appeared in public for more than a month and two of silence on social networks, which has fed fear among her fans that she is being detained for alleged tax evasion, months later that a colleague accused him of forging invoices</p> <p>Fan, who has made the leap to Hollywood and played the superheroine Blink in <em>X Men: Days of Future Past</em> , was last seen in public on July 1, when she visited a children’s hospital, while on her Weibo account ( the “Chinese Twitter”), with more than 60 million followers, has not written anything since June 2.</p> <p><strong>Accused of evading taxes</strong></p> <p>“She is beautiful and good-hearted, I hope they are treating her well”, says one of her fans, who have been sending messages of support to the actress for two months and asking her to give signs of life to silence the rumors and say who simply has taken a vacation, or confirm them to confess that it is investigated.</p> <p>Most assume that Fan, 36, is detained because in May a very popular television presenter, Cui Yongyuan, accused him of evading taxes. According to Cui, Fan carries out a common practice among Chinese stars dubbed “yin-yang contracts” (comparable to the so-called “B-boxes” in corruption cases in Spain) for which they have an official accounting that is quoted to the Treasury and an unofficial one that moves much more money without declaring.</p> <p>In April, Lucy Turnbull, wife of the Australian prime minister, prepared a check for three million yuan for actress Fan Bingbing, the co-founder of a children’s charity center (AP).</p> <p>In the case of Fan, Cui says that in a collaboration she had with her the actress officially collected and declared to the hacienda 10 million yuan (1.2 million euros, 1.4 million dollars) but was secretly paid to others 50 million yuan (6.2 million euros, 7.3 million dollars).</p> <p>After the accusations, Fan’s study stated that Fan had never had such double contracts, but shortly after the Chinese government announced, in early June, an inspection of possible cases of tax evasion between famous movie stars and television country, something that <a href='http://tambourbattant.org/are-you-wanting-a-payday-loan-fast/'>many linked</a> to this scandal.</p> <p>Winner of a Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival</p> <p style=Bingbing poses at the arrival of the screening of the film &#39;The Beguiled&#39; at the 70th International Cannes Film Festival Bingbing poses at the arrival of the screening of the film ‘The Beguiled’ at the 70th International Cannes Film Festival (AP)

Fears of Fan’s arrest – in a country where authorities may take weeks or even months to confirm the arrest of a suspect, hiding his whereabouts even from his relatives – increased when last week it was reported that his brother, Fan Chengcheng , he had been prevented from leaving the country.

This information was published by the Economic Observer newspaper on July 26, although it was censored within a few hours, but this did not prevent the followers of the actress from seeing and commenting, increasing their concern for the future of the star. “Hopefully I can get out of this torment in peace,” said one of these concerned fans on the Weibo social network, signing as Yundan Fengqing, although another named Weiba said that Fan’s is just the tip of the iceberg of evasion cases. famous and soon more will emerge.

Fan, famous in China for her role in the comedy Cell Phone (and its sequel Cell Phone II ) or in local hits such as Lost in Beijing or I’m not Madame Bovary , has been the highest paid actress in the country for the past four years. , with an income superior to 300 million yuan (43 million dollars).

Her role in I’m Not Madame Bovary earned her a Silver Shell at the 2016 San Sebastian Film Festival.

China is a country where authorities can take weeks or even months to confirm an arrest