A year ago, Guo Wengui said he was going to start auctioning off "millions of unvaccinated sperm" to his followers. After campaigning against vaccines with all kinds of conspiracy theories, such as claiming that Covid-19 vaccines caused infertility, this Chinese billionaire who fled to the United States claimed to have discovered a new business. "The sperm of unvaccinated men will have a great demand in the future, and therefore will be sold at a high price. It will be the next Bitcoin," he asserted.
"We will auction off the best sperm from our fellow fighters, including mine," he stated in an interview on a YouTube channel linked to far-right groups in the USA.
Guo never fulfilled his promise to launch the business of "new pure race" sperms, as his followers called it. The Chinese man was arrested in his luxurious apartment in New York overlooking Central Park. He was accused of defrauding hundreds of thousands of people whom he had promised great profits if they invested in his companies, such as the one he wanted to sell of unvaccinated men's semen against Covid.
This summer, a US court found Guo (54 years old) guilty of organized crime, fraud, and money laundering. The sentencing is scheduled for November 19. There is no doubt that the former partner of Stephen Bannon, former chief strategist of the White House during Donald Trump's administration, will spend many years in prison. Prosecutors accuse him of earning over 1 billion dollars in a massive scam on his followers in investment plans and cryptocurrencies between 2018 and 2023.
With that money, he bought a 5,000 square meter mansion, a $3.5 million Ferrari, a custom-made $4.4 million Bugatti, a $62,000 TV, two $36,000 mattresses, and a $37 million luxury yacht, the same one where Bannon was when he was arrested in 2020 by federal agents off the coast of Connecticut.
Guo, who made his fortune in China in real estate, arrived in the USA in 2015 with the label of dissident persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. In Beijing, he was wanted on charges of tax evasion and bribery. He sought asylum in Washington claiming that the communists wanted to imprison him for being critical of the regime. Some Republican lawmakers bought into his activist facade, and he landed on his feet within Donald Trump's inner circle.
The Chinese man became a member of Trump's exclusive social club at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, and he was one of the sponsors of Gettr, the social media platform created by Jason Miller, Trump's former spokesperson. The same platform he used to promote his failed sperm auction last year.
Guo had a close relationship with Bannon, who once introduced his colleague as "the Donald Trump of Beijing," even though he came from a humble family and grew up in a mining town in eastern China. Bannon and Guo founded two non-profit organizations in 2018 that were presented as entities aimed at investigating crimes committed by the CCP. It was later discovered that it was all part of a massive scam.