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Despite extensive police searches spanning across the wider Christchurch area, her body has yet to be found.
The case will be back in court again next month
Court appearance for Yanfei Bao murder accused
Tingjun Cao is accused of murdering the mother and real estate agent, whose body has not been found.www.1news.co.nz
That could very well be accurate on transfer of money from China to overseas. At least as individuals, I know from personal experience that a person in China has a limited amount of options OTHER THAN bank transfers to send money at least to America. I'm not sure if that would be the same for New Zealand. They use wechat as a text/call/video/pay method in China. For the parents of my students in China to send me tuition pay here (USA) we had to use the pay system Stripe. So how to transfer money could have been a common thing to discuss, especially if she was new and didn't know how it was done.Maybe JT's information is pertinent to the case. Yanei asks about how bank transfers would work ad the
From your link:
Bao had been going door to door for work at 10.30am on Vickerys Rd when she went missing in the Wigram suburb on Wednesday.
At 11.16am on Wednesday, Bao rang her friend Jin Tian and had a four-minute conversation with her.
The Press
Jin Tian, said Bao rang her at 11.16am that day on Chinese social media platform WeChat.
During a four-minute conversation, Bao asked Tian how a Christchurch buyer she was working with could transfer $600,000 (more than 2.6 million RMB) from China to pay cash for a house.
The Press
The police scoff it off about the topic of Yanfei's ph call.
Reeves said: “As a real estate agent it would be commonplace for agents to be discussing large sums of money and how to transfer money from overseas if overseas buyers were involved.”
As buyers here in the US all agents we worked with took a copy of our drivers license and left it at the office. We had to meet at their office and then follow them to the property we wanted to view. It is definitely weird to me to cold call in person about real estate, but curious to know if that is unusual in NZ
"Auction" struck me as unusual. Not sure if it this way in NZ, but in the US property sold by Auction has typically been foreclosed on, is forfeited due to crime (usually drug related), or repossessed for failure to pay taxes.Suspect's car spotted near house Yanfei Bao was due to show buyer through, resident says
A car belonging to the man accused of kidnapping Yanfei Bao was seen parked in a street near a house the missing real estate agent was due to show a potential buyer through last week, a resident says.
The property, on Trevor St in Hornby, has been cordoned off and a police tent and spotlights have been set up, as it undergoes a scene examination.
Nearby resident Julie Charnley said she was adamant she saw the silver Mitsubishi police had appealed for sightings of parked on the side of the road about 100m from the Trevor St property for two days last week, but she couldn't be sure what days.
She remembered the distinctive dent in the boot, and the fact it was parked on a slight angle.
No-one was inside.
She drove past it on her way to work and had supplied police with her dashcam video footage in the hope it showed the vehicle.
Police have paid close attention to CCTV cameras on the front of a neighbouring house, and appeared to be photographing an area of footpath where footage may have captured someone walking past.
Charnley said she had not seen Bao.
Prospective buyers were coming and going from the property at the weekend, Charnley said.
Another neighbour said she was shocked the property was now at the centre of the police investigation into Bao’s disappearance.
She didn’t see anything suspicious at the home last Wednesday, the day the missing real estate agent was due to show a potential buyer through.
“This is a quiet neighbourhood we haven’t seen anything unusual.”
The woman said she’d seen a number prospective buyers shown through the modern three bedroom property, including families, since it was listed for sale.
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An auction of the Trevor St property was due to take place yesterday, but it’s been postponed while the investigation takes place.
On Monday evening, Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves said the Trevor St property was of "significant interest" to police investigating the Harcourts real estate agent's alleged kidnapping.
She wouldn't say why.
The comment about the man's ability to read or understand English is interesting. I taught English to young children in China for several years. In the process I learned alot about the education standards and requirements of schools there.Yesterday's Court Appearance + clarification of name suppression...
When discussing the matter of name suppression, the man’s lawyer said: “At this stage, we simply do not know enough. This man has no ability to understand English nor can he read English.”
He said the media had reported on the incident nearly every day and naming his client at this stage could be “prejudicial”.
Judge Phillips accepted the case was “high profile” and acknowledged the role media play in reporting on court matters, but granted the man interim name suppression until his next court appearance and declined media applications to take photos of the defendant.
The defendant faced the judge throughout proceedings, nodding every so often as his interpreter translated what was being said.
Yanfei Bao homicide case: Man charged with murder appears in court, pleads not guilty
The accused cannot speak or read English, his lawyer told the court today.www.nzherald.co.nz
The man appeared in the Christchurch District Court this afternoon before Judge Kevin Phillips.
A charging document in court alleges that the man murdered Bao on July 19.
The man during his first court appearance. Photo / George Heard
Court security reserved 10 seats in the public gallery for Bao’s family to witness proceedings today.
Wearing orange prison attire, the man appeared from custody in the dock with the assistance of an interpreter.
Crown prosecutor Courtney Martyn began by acknowledging Bao’s family in court.
Through a defence lawyer, the man entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of murder, as well as denying the charge of kidnapping.
Judge Phillips remanded him in custody to appear at the High Court at Christchurch on September 1.
