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We are writing on behalf of a British company, DBS-Raymond UK (Registered in England and Wales with Company No. 10200090), which holds an 80% stake in its Chinese joint venture, DBS-Raymond Ningbo (China Co. No. 330200400090035).
We are compelled to bring to public attention a series of shocking and protracted cases of severe injustice, blatant legal violations, and systemic failure in Ningbo, China. These events have caused catastrophic financial losses and represent a typical and grave threat to the rights of Western companies investing in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
In November 2016, the company legitimately won a public land auction for a 5,970 square metres plot and signed a standard government land sale contract with the Ningbo authorities. The contract stipulated the delivery of clean land (a concept akin to "Vacant Possession" in common law) by 15 March 2017. The company fulfilled their obligations by paying the full consideration in a timely manner.
However, for over nine years to date, the Ningbo government has failed to deliver the contracted land. The core reason is both astonishing and simple: nearly half of the purchased plot (approx. 2,760 square metres) is occupied by a key flood-discharge river for Ningbo Airport and the western part of the city, which has never been infilled. Critically, the mandatory government approval to infill this river was only granted in December 2022 — more than five years and nine months after the contractual delivery deadline of March 2017. Furthermore, proper compensation to the local Lishe River Fishery Cooperative using this river has never been made. Therefore, the land is physically, legally, and relationally not "clean" (namely, NOT in vacant possession) for delivery as contracted.
When the company resorted to the Chinese courts seeking justice, what unfolded was a Kafkaesque nightmare of judicial perversion and government-sponsored false statements.
To help the government avoid liability for lawful compensation claims amid its declining revenues, the local government department - Ningbo Yinzhou Water Bureau ("Yinzhou Water") - provided the court with a brazenly false statement, claiming the river-infilling approval was completed in October 2010 —contradicting its own official records and the only official December 2022 approval document available to public. However, the court accepted this obvious fiction and ruled against the company to shield the government, by the wrongful adjudication that "it was clean land and had been delivered in March 2017 as contracted." As the enclosed pictures show, a major river still runs through the land and huge municipal sewage pipelines right in the middle of it; how can it possibly be "clean land", "in vacant possession" or "delivered in March 2017 as contracted"?
Further Perjured Testimony:
After the company filed the appeal and the higher court ordered a retrial regarding the unpaid fishery compensation, a different fishery cooperative from Shiqi (incorporated only in 2022), rather than the actual Lishe Fishery Cooperative(incorporated in 1999), submitted another false statement to the same court. They claimed to have settled the compensation and agreed to the river works back in 2012 — a physical and temporal impossibility, besides the contradictions to much of the evidence from both Lishe Fishery Cooperative and the local government information disclosure documents. Nevertheless, the same court once again accepted this obviously perjured testimony to protect the government from claims.
The company's pursuit of accountability for these falsehoods has spawned over a dozen separate administrative lawsuits against various government departments for perjury, falsification of government information, and wrongful Administrative Determinations in bad faith. However, the courts have consistently refused to correct these manifest injustices.
The systemic nature of this abuse is clear:
Different government entities are coordinating to produce tailored false evidence whenever the government department was challenged, while the courts turn a blind eye to the piles of overwhelming factual and documentary proof and support the more than obvious false statements. This is not merely a commercial dispute but a coordinated campaign to illegally undermine the foreign company's lawfully acquired assets and its rightful compensation for a nine-year delay at the least, by obviously abusing the legal system.
Amid declining government revenues following the real estate market downturn, these cases expose a disturbing reality for Western businesses in China: signed contracts can be rendered worthless, the rule of law can be subverted by coordinated perjury, and even the judiciary can be complicit in upholding blatant misrepresentations.
In the first-instance hearing, the Government official even threatened our director in the open court right before all of the hearing judges and the public observers in the public gallery: "We have many ways to make you unable to finish the construction even if you get the land." Most egregiously, during the retrial hearing, the government's representing lawyer openly threatened in front of the British director, the judges, all parties and the public observers in the public gallery that it was "very easy" for them to use government organs, such as the police, to get any evidence they needed against the company. This threat has since been substantiated by the parade of false statements accepted by the court.
Download all evidence dossiers (F, F2, F3, M2 & Q4, 926pages, 277MB) by one link, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UGZZ57zNYfK_8iJfGnWveDJ2RUD_7HsC/view?usp=drive_link
or you may separately download single evidence dossier for some cases by:
Evidence Dossier F (298pages 83MB) by
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Evidence Dossier F2 (54pages 6MB) by
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Evidence Dossier F3 (288pages 125MB) by
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Evidence Dossier M2 (79pages 11MB) by
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Evidence Dossier Q4 (207pages 74MB) by
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ncL1ryNbxmCXEQzJpuCUfEmx-osEKFwv/view?usp=drive_link
We believe the story of this British company being ensnared in such a premeditated and systemic legal trap is of significant public interest and newsworthy. It highlights extreme investment risks that go beyond commercial aspect into the realm of government-sanctioned deprivation through judicial abuse.
We have extensive documentation, court rulings, evidence of the false statements, and etc. We would be grateful for the opportunity to discuss this further and provide all necessary materials for your verification and potential coverage.
Please contact us via our email Invested.but.Injusticed.in.Ningbo@Gmail.com
or call us at 0044-7397-029564.
(DBS-Raymond Outdoor & Tourism Businesses Investment (UK) Limited)