Zhang Li, the co-chairman of R&F, was arrested in Britain, and the company released documents late at night to confirm it.

65438+February 65438+On the night of February, the market rumored that Zhang Li, the founder, co-chairman and president of R&F Real Estate, was arrested in the UK. In this regard, the R&F Group issued a statement on the official WeChat account late at night, confirming the authenticity of the rumor. R&F said in a statement that Zhang Li was accused of hosting a banquet in China for the former head of the San Francisco business department and providing him with hotel accommodation, so it was suspected of bribery, and it was taking legal action against this false accusation.

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Previous negative reports showed that1October 30th, 165438+ Zhang Li was arrested by the London police and was facing extradition proceedings. The reason for the arrest was accused by the United States of winning a commercial contract in California through kickbacks. Zhang Li was released on bail of150,000 pounds on Monday, and filed an extradition objection with the United States.

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Zhang Li joined the real estate industry on 1993, and established the R&F Group in Guangzhou with Li Silian, a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, to build the company into one of the representative real estate enterprises in South China. 20 10 February, Zhang Li was selected as the 556th richest man in the world by Forbes. 20 13 new wealth China's rich list ranked 15 with 22.30 billion yuan.

In 2020, the sales amount of R&F exceeded 654.38+03 billion, ranking among the hundreds of billions of housing enterprises. After experiencing the high-light moment in 2020, R&F quickly fell into a liquidity dilemma and eventually defaulted on its debt, becoming one of the mine explosion enterprises. However, after a lot of asset sales and debt restructuring, the company got a breathing space.

On 2022 165438+ 10/0, R&F Real Estate announced that the overall extension of eight corporate bonds was approved by the bondholders' meeting, and the weighted average term of the eight corporate bonds was successfully extended from about four months to more than three years after the extension.

With the realization of the overall extension of domestic bonds, R&F became the first real estate enterprise in China to successfully extend all domestic and foreign bonds, with a total debt of about 46.6 billion yuan.

R&F said that by the end of 20021,the company had a total saleable land reserve of about 50 million square meters; In 2022, * * * has more than 200 projects for sale, and the saleable resources are about 220 billion yuan. At the same time, it has a large number of investment properties and hotel portfolios, and there are many urban renewal project resources reserves in many parts of the country, especially in Greater Bay Area.