The exiled businessman and vocal critic of Beijing were denied bail after being charged by the US with fraud last month. Guo left China in 2014 during an anti-corruption crackdown under President Xi Jinping.
Fugitive and exiled Chinese business tycoon Guo Wengui was arrested on Wednesday (Local Time) in New York on the charge of financial conspiracy to defraud thousands of his online followers out of USD 1 billion, US Department of Justice's Southern District of New York said in a statement.<