China company Ezubao ‘fleeced investors of $7.6bn’

Police arrested the maverick founder of China’s largest online finance business on suspicion of fleecing 900,000 investors of $7.6bn (€6.9bn), in what could be the biggest financial fraud in Chinese history.

State media reported the arrest of Ding Ning and 20 of his employees.

State broadcaster CCTV aired purported confessions from two former employees at Ezubao, an Anhui province outfit that rose from obscurity to become China’s largest online financing platform in the span of about 18 months.