since early june. let s go to beijing and bring in matt rivers. matt, this is a bizarre story. good morning. reporter: it is very weird. good morning, dave. this would be like if meryl streep or jennifer lawrence disappeared in the united states and no one has any idea. it is hard to overstate how famous fan bingbing is here in china. that is why the story is really taking off. a huge talk in china. it goes back to her being alleged to be involved in a tax avoidance scheme. signing fake contracts in china to avoid paying taxes. she was accused in late may. the chinese authority says they would launch the investigation. fan bingbing denied the allegation. one social media post in june and she has not been seen or heard since. we reached out to the tax administrators and fan bingbing s people and foreign ministry and no one has commented.
avoidance scheme she was accused of being part of. signing fake contracts to avoid paying taxes on her sizable income. she was accused publicly in may. she categorically denied it. the government would launch an investigation into the fake contract in the chinese entertainment industry. fan bingbing denied it. she posted one time on social media in june and hasn t been seen or heard since. we reached out to tax regulators and ministry of foreign affairs. they all said they had no comment. we tried to reach out to fan bingbing. we were unable to get in touch. the only clue to her status is from an article posted on the state run media site on september 6th. it said in part fan bingbing had been brought under control and about to receive legal judgment. the article was swiftly deleted. if you talk about this on social
at all since june. she s also familiar to american audiences for her role in the x-men franchise, but she s one of china s most bankable stars by far. cnn s matt rivers joining us from beijing. is there any sense of what happened here? yeah, we re getting some clues, but no definitive answers. it s hard to overstate in china how famous fan bingbing is. this would be like the equivalent of jennifer lawrence or meryl streep just going missing. and fan bingbing is an a-plus list celebrity. she s incredibly famous here in china. all of this really started back in may when she was first publicly accused of being involved in a tax avoidance scheme. not having to pay taxes on her sizable income. it was in june that she made her last social media post. and then since then, she has not been heard from. she denied the allegations, said she didn t do anything wrong, and that s it, the last we heard of her. we have tried to reach her to no avail. we reached out to three different government mi
she s a young girl who s wrapped up, i m sure, racked up huge legal debts. i wonder who s paying it. because we know that don junior has gotten some of his covered by the rnc. there are people characters in this who i m sure the president wants to stay loyal to him. that s a question i want to get to the bottom of. joyce, there was also something from don junior that says russians discussed hillary clinton being part of an alleged tax avoidance scheme. but the accused spy and the russian lawyer deny secretary clinton s name ever came up. what do you make of that, that the stories don t align? it s not very surprising. you ve got people who are being a little bit cagey about what actually went on. perhaps people who focussed on different aspects. so these sort of details, it s hard to sort out. that s a big part of the mueller team s work is to discern the truth from the fiction, and so decide what the key portions are, and then to assess whether
nice view. honestly, everything we know about mr. romney s financial history points to his involvement in decades and decades and decades of one tax avoidance scheme without the other. this house on gentle bend drive in missouri city, texas. mitt romney owns that house. every month the couple makes out a personal check to mitt romney for $600. they don t have the mortgage on that house through a bank. their mortgage is with mitt romney personally. why is mitt romney this one texas couple s mortgage lender. because of a tax avoidance scheme he got involved back in in the 80s. they refied with his this year. m marriott took advantage of auditing tricks. they got slapped with tens of millions of dollars in fines from the federal government. that s because son of boss was a