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Jul 24, 2017 05:16 AM
BUSINESS

How LeEco Fell From Glory

LeEco founder and chairman Jia Yueting. Photo: Visual China
LeEco founder and chairman Jia Yueting. Photo: Visual China

Once a market darling, China’s tech giant LeEco has now become a headache for investors and creditors as years of reckless expansion led the company into a debt impasse.

Angry creditors last week blocked an extraordinary shareholder’s meeting of Leshi Internet Information & Technology, the main listed entity of LeEco. With protestors chanting slogans outside the door demanding payments owed for services rendered, Leshi shareholders hastily ended the meeting for the election of a new board in just 15 minutes.

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