Ziyi Zhang in Donation Scandal of China Earthquake
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asveprod — 16 years ago(February 03, 2010 05:03 AM)
Talented people are often not talented in finances and crooks are all around them to take advantage by next chance. Might be somebody in her team who transfered the money to another account, then it should have gone to, or maybe more likely, that an employee in the corresponding bank in china, put the money on his account to get the interest until complaints come and if not located, even keep the money himself. I sent once money to a charity in India. It worked fine until my bank decided to use another corresponding bank in another city. My bank even wanted to give up contacting the bank in India, because to much hassle for such small amount and no progress. Finally my receiving organization said, that they got it, but I think they just said so, so that I don t stop to donate. Might be a similar case.
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Gossipgirl888 — 16 years ago(February 03, 2010 06:39 AM)
Not sure if it is the case. Internet denizens found US IRS form 2008 of Ziyi Foundation showed very clearly there was only more than $45,000 transaction on the account. It was far from what she mentioned to China and overseas media, her Ziyi Foundation has raised 1 million USD. The foundation was set up in july 2008 and expired in May 2009. By far, she and her team still failed to prove any evidence of transaction of any pledge to any charity organization in China. Her fiance told one of his friends in Hong Kong there were 2million USD transferred to her personal account in USA, and he wasn't sure if there was further donation flowing in.
I am not an expert for charity business. But I cant convince myself that holding pledges for 20 months in her personal account during China National Disaster is RIGHT thing to do. According source, 90% of post re-construction projects in Sichuan are finished -
Gossipgirl888 — 16 years ago(February 03, 2010 08:03 AM)
One of newspaper interviewed an lawyer, and he said 'Having kept donation in her personal account for more than 20 months has already caused crime of encroachment by China law. But her case is very complicated, because she is Hong Kong resident, pledges was raised in France, and her foundation registered in USA. This scandal has definitely damaged her image and career. She was recently dropped from movie 'Snow flower and the secret fan' both as producer and leading role. Also some sources said her big endorsers wont' extend new contracts with her. At moment, still people are waiting for them to publish her foundation pledges account details. It was said by her agent it will be today. But day has gone by far, there isn't any announcement.
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Gossipgirl888 — 16 years ago(February 03, 2010 08:53 PM)
That's the official declaration from her agent. As one of producers and investors, and leading role, they have been planning this movie for a long time. Do you believe suddenly she realize the tight schedule, especially during her so many scandals?
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Acropolisnow — 16 years ago(February 04, 2010 07:30 PM)
http://www.beijingischic.com/2010/02/ziyi-con-ella-siguio-el-escandalo.html
"A bad week for Zhang Ziyi. Besides pulling out as investor/producer/star of Snow Flower and The Secret Fan, Zhang Ziyi has been under fire the past week for another controversy. The charitable foundation that she formed in the aftermath of the May 12 2008 Sichuan earthquake has fallen under the scrutiny of the internet denizens. As you may recall, Zhang very publicly berated some festival goers who were unaware of the tragedy and made a plea for contributions at the 2008 Cannes Festival and herself pledged to donate a large sum for the victims. Netizens looking at the public records of the foundation and the Chinese Red Cross, registered in the US under her managers name, discovered that the foundations income and assets was zero. This raises the questions of whether a) Zhang Ziyi misdirected contributions, b) actually collected any funds, or c) donated any promised funds herself. Netizens in one popular forum called for a boycott of Zhang Ziyi endorsed products. Zhang Ziyi issued a statement stating that most of the pledges were from foreign contributors and reminded them to honor their pledges. She said that she would disclose account details and welcomed the monitoring. (Sina) (2) (Xinhua)
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PoPingA — 16 years ago(February 05, 2010 12:27 AM)
A reporter received the following English email from someone:
"she received close to 1.7m USD or more than 10m RMB in funds from overseas sources with mostly checks into her personal account on and after her Cannes fundraising. Although she claimed that 5m was pledged but she got about 1.7m. That is what she meant by a lot of people did not pay up In her statement. However, she has kept those received funds in entirety in her personal account for 21 months since the earthquake without putting them into her foundation accounts. (Actually, even if she had had deposited those funds into her accounts, that would have constituted embezzlement according to laws anywhere in the world as she was not an authorized charity at the time of fundraising so she must immediately submit those funds to the earthquake area) in fact, she never seriously proceeded with the "Deyang Resource Center" project. Both Deyang government and Care for Children Foundation announced that they were not aware of such a project. So the simple fact is: Zhang Ziyi kept the 1.7m USD in her own accounts and failed to provide it to the earthquake area. Her excuses are false. Unbelievable. I got those info from her closest sources and therefore shocked"
http://say.cqnews.net/wy/201002/t20100204_4040002.htm