{
  "id": 2084017,
  "title": "China Evergrande Founder Hui Ka Yan Sentenced To Life Imprisonment Over $300 Billion Debt Crisis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/china-evergrande-founder-hui-ka-yan-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-2084017",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T05:40:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/china-evergrande-founder-hui-ka-yan-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-over-300-billion-debt-crisis"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Hui Ka Yan, founder of China Evergrande Group, has been sentenced to life in prison by a Chinese court after being convicted of multiple financial offences linked to the property developer’s collapse, Reuters reported. The court also ordered the confiscation of Hui’s personal assets. The billionaire had pleaded guilty in April to eight charges, including misuse of funds, fundraising fraud and…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}