{"id":522111,"date":"2026-08-20T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=522111"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:19:13","slug":"china-sentences-evergrande-founder-xu-jiayin-to-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/china-sentences-evergrande-founder-xu-jiayin-to-life-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"China sentences Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin to life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Chinese court <strong>sentenced Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin to life in prison<\/strong> on Thursday for financial crimes and fined the property giant more than <strong>$2 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evergrande and its real estate division were ordered to pay a combined <strong>15.82 billion yuan, about $2.4 billion<\/strong>, in penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former real estate giant has become a symbol of <strong>China\u2019s ongoing property crisis<\/strong> after years of rapid expansion and mounting debt. Evergrande eventually filed for bankruptcy in 2021 after struggling to repay its enormous liabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese court sentenced Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin to life in prison on Thursday for financial crimes and fined the property giant more than $2 billion. Evergrande and its real estate division were ordered to pay a combined 15.82 billion yuan, about $2.4 billion, in penalties. The former real estate giant has become a symbol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":522112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2129,611],"class_list":["post-522111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-china","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bP9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/https___cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com_images_1_6_1_5_36775161-4-eng-GB_\u540d\u79f0\u672a\u8a2d\u5b9a-2221.avif","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/https___cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com_images_1_6_1_5_36775161-4-eng-GB_\u540d\u79f0\u672a\u8a2d\u5b9a-2221.avif"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}