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Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong, 55, was reported missing in eastern Manukau counties.
A body was found during the search for an Auckland businesswoman who had been reported missing.
The body was located in Sunnyhills on Saturday afternoon. The identification has not yet been confirmed.
Police are treating the death as inexplicable and an investigation is underway.
An autopsy is scheduled to take place on Sunday.
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Police at Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong’s home in East Auckland.
The discovery comes after a wealthy East Auckland businesswoman disappeared.
Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong, 55, who is described as about 160 centimeters tall and thin in complexion, was reported missing from her $ 2 million home in Suzetta Pl, Sunnyhills, near Pakuranga, on Saturday morning. morning.
She was last seen alive on Friday afternoon.
“The police and Elizabeth’s family are concerned for her well-being and would like to hear from anyone who has seen her, or who knows where she may be,” police said in a statement Saturday.
On Saturday night, several police cars were seen parked in front of Zhong’s house.
Also outside, waiting in her vehicle, was her ex-husband, Frank Fu.
He said that he did not know what had happened, but that he feared foul play.
“I think … maybe she was murdered.”
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Police officers stand guard at the home of Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong, a missing woman from Auckland.
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.
He said the couple broke up in 2017 and Zhong had a new partner.
Fu described Zhong as a very astute and successful businesswoman whose interests now lie in the film industry.
“She is a very successful businesswoman,” Fu said.
Anyone with information on Zhong should contact the police at 105, citing file number 201128/1909.
Zhong is the sole director and shareholder of Digipost Entertainment Ltd.
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Frank Fu talks to the police outside Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong’s home in Auckland.
Digipost is a visual effects company that has been involved in such films as Beyond The Edge, Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent to Everest, various commercials, and TV movie promotions.
The company went to work on a movie called Archived, to be produced by the director of Shrek, Andrew Adamson.
In 2018 Variety reported that Archived It was going to be a great live-action CGI fantasy movie about two lazy robots who worry about being replaced by humans.
It was established as a co-production between New Zealand and China with a production budget of between $ 20 million and $ 40 million. Variety he said, and it was expected to be the first of several films that would be jointly presented by Chinese fund Super Entertainment and Digipost.
Movie website IMDB said the movie was “in development.”
Zhong is also the sole director and shareholder of the bankrupt Kennedy Point Group Ltd and Carrick Wines Ltd wine companies.
In february of last year 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.
At the time, Zhong also had plans for another project, which he described as the moving story of a trial endured by two boys and their dog in Marlborough Sounds.
