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Ex-Aston Villa owner Tony Xia ‘detained for six months before arrest’: report
The former owner of English Premier League side Aston Villa was detained for six months by Chinese authorities before his formal arrest last month, according to reports from China.On Friday, Caixin reported that Tony Xia Jiantong “spent six months in a shadowy network of detention centres prior to his formal arrest last month on suspicion of harming the interests of a Shenzhen-listed manufacturing company”.The Beijing-based business news outlet spoke to Xia’s family members, who said that the…