{"id":21921,"date":"2021-08-24T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=21921"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:21:02","slug":"former-ipi-chairwoman-accused-of-failing-to-comply-with-court-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/former-ipi-chairwoman-accused-of-failing-to-comply-with-court-order","title":{"rendered":"Former IPI chairwoman accused of failing to comply with court order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Attorney Aaron Halegua, who represents seven Chinese construction workers suing IPI, has accused Cui Li Jie of not complying with a preservation order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.- The attorney acting in a lawsuit against\u00a0Imperial Pacific International<\/strong>\u00a0(IPI) brought by\u00a0seven construction workers<\/strong> has said that former IPI chairwoman Cui Li Jie “persisted in a pattern of obstruction even after the court found her in contempt.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron Halegua\u00a0<\/strong>has reiterated his previous request for Cui to be found to have flouted the court<\/strong>\u00a0for failing to comply with a preservation order to keep data from her mobile phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven construction workers\u00a0accuse the casino operator of labour abuse and human trafficking<\/strong>. Cui Li Jie was named third-party witness in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 31, 2021, the court approved a motion from the plaintiff and issued an amendment order instructing Cui to identify and save all telephone data she used or created after March 26, 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Mariana’s Variety, Halegua told the court: \u201cIt is already obvious that\u00a0Cui has not complied with the preservation order<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the\u00a0former IPI chairwoman “provided false answers”\u00a0<\/strong>and accused her of creating a false story “about how she lost her Hong Kong SIM card and erased all data from the cell phone.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Halegua claimed the Court should consider a finding of criminal contempt and the imposition of punitive sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June,\u00a0<\/strong>Cui Li Jie<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>said that\u00a0she was poorly represented in court by her lawyer<\/strong>, Juan T. Lizama. However, in an email disclosed in federal court, Lizama says that\u00a0John Mo Shi Jian<\/strong>, a former University of Macau law professor,\u00a0was giving Cui Li Jie bad advice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IPI\u2019s gaming licence<\/a> has been suspended indefinitely <\/strong>as the operator failed to comply with regulatory orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attorney Aaron Halegua, who represents seven Chinese construction workers suing IPI, has accused Cui Li Jie of not complying with a preservation order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Former Imperial Pacific International (IPI) chairwoman Cui Li Jie faces accusations of persistent obstruction and contempt of court for allegedly failing to comply with a data preservation order in a labor abuse and human trafficking lawsuit against the operator. This legal development occurs amidst IPI's indefinite gaming license suspension due to its failure to adhere to regulatory mandates, highlighting significant governance and compliance deficiencies.","focusai_entities":"Aaron Halegua, Cui Li Jie, Imperial Pacific International (IPI), Juan T. Lizama, John Mo Shi Jian","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Hong Kong, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), tech_data (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI License Reinstatement?","query":"What specific regulatory and legal milestones must Imperial Pacific International achieve to address its gaming license suspension and the ongoing contempt proceedings against its former chairwoman?"},{"label":"Data Preservation Impact?","query":"How might the alleged non-compliance with the data preservation order by Cui Li Jie impact the broader labor abuse and human trafficking lawsuit against IPI, particularly regarding discovery and potential sanctions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[23908,22674,23907],"class_list":["post-21921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-ipi","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21941,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921\/revisions\/21941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}