Text | Observe Jun
The official announcement is here! Evergrande's "No. 2 person" mysteriously disappeared, who gave him a tip-off!
Since Xu Jiayin was controlled, and Evergrande's core Ke Peng, Du Liang, Liu Yongzhuo and other senior executives entered, the collapse of the Evergrande empire has become an established fact. However, it should be noted that among the high-level executives of Evergrande who have entered the current market, there is actually a fish that has slipped through the net, and this person is Xia Haijun, the "second person" of Evergrande.
And not so long ago, the official announcement came. According to the announcement issued by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Xia Haijun is suspected of violating the relevant regulations of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange during his tenure as a director of Evergrande Real Estate Group, and it is hereby decided to publicly notify and punish him, including but not limited to prohibiting Xia Haijun from serving as a director, supervisor and senior manager of the bond issuer.
For Xia Haijun, this penalty notice of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange is equivalent to a comprehensive ban on him, and in the future, it is impossible for him to hold any important position in a listed company in China, and his career in China is basically over. Of course, Xia Haijun himself may not care about this punishment result. Because, the announcement of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange also shows that they are currently unable to get in touch with Xia Haijun, that is to say, the No. 2 person of Evergrande has mysteriously disappeared and completely lost contact with the outside world.
So, where did Xia Haijun go? Extrapolating from the information known at this stage, we can basically determine that Xia Haijun should no longer be in the territory.
To put it bluntly, Xia Haijun is the No. 2 person in Evergrande, Evergrande has committed such a big thing, and the country will definitely not be able to sit still, especially when Xu Jiayin has been "controlled", if Xia Haijun is really in China, he will inevitably be controlled. And now the state has not released the relevant information about Xia Haijun, which can only prove that Xia Haijun has gone overseas, and the state cannot arrest him for the time being.
I have to admit that Xia Haijun is indeed not simple. In July 2021, when Guangfa Bank publicly collected debts from Evergrande, triggering the Evergrande debt crisis, Xia Haijun decisively sold his Evergrande dollar bonds and cashed out 360 million. Later, in August, it successively sold its shares in Evergrande Property and Evergrande Automobile, and successfully cashed out 1.2 billion yuan.
As a core executive whose status is second only to Xu Jiayin, Xia Haijun's large-scale reduction of Evergrande shares is obviously to prepare for running away. And we do have to admit that Xia Haijun is indeed successful, after a continuous large amount of cash, Xia Haijun seems to have evaporated, and Xia Haijun did not appear at the Baojiao Building and Evergrande Automobile Conference held after Evergrande.
Later, in 2023, some media revealed that Xia Haijun was helping Xu Jiayin connect with overseas creditors abroad, including Evergrande's application for bankruptcy protection in the United States, which is said to be operated by Xia Haijun. And if the news is true, then Xia Haijun's current hiding place should be in the United States.
Then again, even the big boss Xu Jiayin couldn't run away, but Xia Haijun, the number two person, was able to get out of the way, who was the one who gave him a message? The outside world generally believes that behind Xia Haijun's successful escape, it is likely that there is a bigger backer to report to him. Probably, as early as the outbreak of the Evergrande crisis in 2021, Xia Haijun received the news and knew the country's attitude, so he was so resolute to cash out and run away.
According to media statistics, during his tenure at Evergrande from 2008 to 2020, Xia Haijun received a total income of more than 1.638 billion yuan from Evergrande, with an average of 126 million yuan a year. In addition, there is an annual dividend income, which adds up to almost hundreds of millions, plus the income from cashing out later, it is conservatively estimated that Xia Haijun has received more than 3 billion money from Evergrande. What's more, most of Xia Haijun's money should have been successfully taken away in the end, which is the most terrifying.
Maybe, even Xu Jiayin didn't expect that after working hard all his life, in the end, the benefits were taken away by others, but he became one of the costs, which is really ridiculous and sad!