# Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan, from property tycoon to life in jail

https://mins.news/en/item/27024

- Reuters, 2026-08-20 07:15 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/evergrande-founder-hui-ka-yan-property-tycoon-life-jail-2026-08-20/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a86a97dc69d29000181ab87

> At the Chinese Communist Party’s centenary celebrations in 2021, Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan mingled with powerful figures and smiled broadly, showing no apparent sign of the mounting pressure on China Evergrande Group, the world’s most indebted property developer.

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