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PEKIN / PARIS (Reuters) – Chinese HNA co-founder and co-chairman Wang Jian died on Tuesday after an accidental fall south of France, announced Wednesday the conglomerate shareholder Pierre et Vacances and the local gendarmerie.
Wang Jian, 57, was on a business trip in Provence and visited the village of Bonnieux, in the Vaucluse, where the gendarmerie was called Tuesday shortly before 11:00 to see this deadly fall.
"He stood on the edge of the precipice to have his family take his picture and he fell down. the center of Bonnieux and made yesterday morning a fall of about fifteen meters, "Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Mériaux, of the gendarmerie group of Vaucluse, told Reuters on Wednesday.
" An investigation was opened ", a he added, stating that an autopsy should be be used to determine the exact causes of death, for example whether or not he has been sick. "The testimonials allow to privilege the accidental track."
Relief could not revive him despite a cardiac mbadage, says one source close to the survey.
HNA, which has increased acquisitions in recent years, is experiencing financial difficulties that have contributed the cancellation on Monday of the purchase of a logistics activity in Australia. HNA now sells badets to reduce its debt, approving the sale of the equivalent of $ 10 billion in real estate this year, as well as stakes in Deutsche Bank and Hilton Worldwide Holdings.
(Writing of Beijing, Emmanuel Jarry and Jean-Baptiste Vey in Paris, Jean-François Rosnoblet in Marseille, with Bertrand Boucey for French service, edited by Yves Clarisse)
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