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Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong, 55, was last seen alive on Friday afternoon.
A body believed to be that of a missing Auckland businesswoman was found in a vehicle near her home in Auckland.
Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong, 55, was reported missing on Saturday morning and police later confirmed that they had found a body. Identification of the body has yet to be confirmed.
On Sunday a neighbor told him Things Zhong’s house was a bit “mysterious” with people coming and going.
Zhong’s friends had been knocking on doors in the area Saturday morning looking for her before police showed up, she said.
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Police on Suzetta Pl in Sunnyhills, East Auckland, following the disappearance of Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong.
“I don’t think anyone on the street saw her come home the day before,” the man said.
He saw his car parked on the road Friday.
Another neighbor, who has lived on the same street for 10 years, said Zhong kept quiet and rarely saw her.
“It’s actually quite nice and safe around here, so this is really shocking.
“It’s a neighborhood where most of us know each other, so this is really weird,” said the neighbor.
Another resident said he was a “very” curtained “type of person.
“Being a dead end, it is quite intimate between the neighbors, but I never saw or spoke to her.”
Another neighbor said that during the Covid-19 lockdown, Zhong put teddy bears in the window.
“It made me think she’s probably quite charming,” he said.
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Elizabeth Zhong put teddy bears in her window during the Covid-19 shutdown.
Police investigation
Investigators have focused much of their attention on the trunk of the vehicle where the body was found, just a few blocks from Zhong’s home in Sunnyhills.
Things It is his understanding that the police removed the body from the vehicle on Saturday night and that the vehicle was removed for forensic testing.
An autopsy on the body was due to take place Sunday, police said.
Zhong was reported missing from her $ 2 million home in Suzetta Pl, Sunnyhills, near Pakuranga, on Saturday morning.
Police and forensic teams remained on his property Sunday while the “unexplained death” was investigated.
Zhong Trading Companies
On Saturday night, Zhong’s ex-husband, Frank Fu, was seen outside their home.
He said Things He did not know what had happened, but he feared a crime.
Fu, Zhong and their daughter, who now works for the Treasury in Wellington, came to New Zealand in 1997 for what Fu said were research work.
The couple separated in 2017 and Zhong had a new partner, he said.
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Police and coroners were on a Suzetta Pl property Sunday after a body was found nearby.
Fu described Zhong as a very canny businesswoman whose interests now lie in the film industry.
“She is a very successful businesswoman,” Fu said.
Zhong is the sole director and shareholder of Digipost Entertainment Ltd, a visual effects company that has been involved in films including Beyond the limit.
The company went to work on a CGI fantasy film called Archived, to be produced by the director of Shrek, Andrew Adamson.
It was established as a co-production between New Zealand and China with a production budget in the range of $ 20-40 million, Variety reported in 2018. It was expected to be the first of several films to be jointly presented by Chinese fund Super Entertainment and Digipost.
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Police officers stand guard at the home of Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong, a missing woman from Auckland.
Zhong was also the sole director and shareholder of the bankrupt Kennedy Point Group Ltd and Carrick Wines Ltd wine companies.
In February 2019, Things reported that Zhong was selling Carrick Winery in Central Otago to help finance his film career.
He said at the time that due to political difficulties in China he did not receive the expected funds for the projects he was working on.
