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Caixin

Ex-England soccer club chief spends months in China detention centers

Relatives say Xia Jiantong was detained prior to his formal arrest

Xia Jiantong, who also goes by Tony Xie, closed the deal to buy the U.K.’s Aston Villa Football Club on June 15, 2016.    © AP

The Chinese former chairman of one of England's big soccer clubs spent six months in a shadowy network of detention centers prior to his formal arrest last month on suspicion of harming the interests of a Shenzhen-listed manufacturing company, Caixin has learned.

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