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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
The disappearance of the founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, from the public’s point of view in the last two months has generated some speculation.
As quoted from Newsweek, a video predicting the fate of the murdered or reincarcerated Chinese billionaire, is widely discussed on social media.
The video of that September 2019 interview has been shared hundreds of times on Twitter as people speculated about what happened to Ma.
The video contains a conversation between Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, who isolated himself after exposing allegations of corruption in the country. He said Real vision that there are “only two paths” to Ma’s future after he leaves Alibaba.
“All Chinese billionaires, there are only two ways: prison and die.”
Interviewer Kyle Bass later reiterated: “So he will go to jail or he will be killed.”
Wengui later pointed out how Ma’s stake in the private company Ant Financial caused “big problems” for China as it challenged the country’s banking system.
China is said to want to take over a company now known as Ant Group, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group.
“Where’s #JackMa? It’s over a year old,” tweeted businessman and investor Jason Calacanis while sharing the video.
“This person predicted that Jack Ma would be jailed or killed by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). More than a year later, Ma was missing for 2 months,” said Henry Mascot, founder of Curacel insurance company.
Jack Ma has also been inactive on Twitter for almost three months. He did not appear as a judge in the finale of his television show, Africa’s Business Heroes.
It is scheduled to appear in the November season finale. reality show entrepreneur, but was replaced by Lucy Peng, an executive at Alibaba.
An Alibaba spokesperson said Reuters On Monday (4/1) the change occurred due to scheduling problems. But he declined further comment.
The unknown existence of one of the richest people in the bamboo curtain country is said to have come after criticizing the Chinese government regarding the country’s financial regulation system at a fintech event in Shanghai on October 24. 2020.
At an event also attended by China’s top official, Jack Ma criticized China’s state banking system and called for reform.
The 56-year-old even said that Chinese banks operate with a ‘pawn shop’ mentality.
The speech came just weeks before the scheduled initial public offering (IPO) of Ant Group, a Jack Ma-owned fintech company.
Ant’s IPO is forecast to be the largest IPO in history, reaching $ 35 billion or about Rs 485.9 trillion.
Jack Ma’s criticism is suspected of disturbing the Chinese government.
Jack Ma is known to be often loud and vocal in his criticism of the government.
Many senior Chinese officials are uncomfortable with the influence and rapid growth of Jack Ma’s company.
“Xi (President Xi Jinping) doesn’t care if you are on the rich list or not. What he cares about is what you do after you get rich and if you want to ally yourself with the interests of the government,” said a Chinese official.
So far, there has been no official statement from the Chinese government on the news of Jack Ma’s disappearance.
(DEA)
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