{"id":22009,"date":"2021-08-26T13:01:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=22009"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:15:37","slug":"former-ipi-chairwoman-in-contempt-of-court-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/former-ipi-chairwoman-in-contempt-of-court-again","title":{"rendered":"Former IPI chairwoman in contempt of court again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has found Cui Li Jie, former IPI chairwoman, in contempt of court again. She could face a penalty of $1,000 per day or even jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.- Problems continue for Cui Li Jie, former IPI chairwoman<\/strong>. She has now been found to have breached a court preservation order\u00a0<\/strong>that obliged her to keep data from her mobile phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney Aaron Halegua<\/a>, who represents seven Chinese construction workers suing IPI, had accused Cui Li Jie of obstructing the case<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona\u00a0<\/strong>has ruled that the court “found that Cui blatantly disregarded the court\u2019s order by continuously deleting her WeChat messages even though the court\u2019s preservation order required that she preserve all\u00a0electronically stored information (ESI)<\/strong>\u00a0data.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Saipan Tribune, Cui Li Jie was asked to provide her computer for forensic analysis<\/strong>. She was also ordered to submit an amended sworn statement describing all ESI data within five days, to\u00a0provide proof of purchase for the rose gold iPhone she recently brought<\/strong>, and to provide all remaining SIM cards she has in her possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court also ordered her to\u00a0file a sworn statement from the vendor confirming that the imaging of all devices has been completed and saved<\/strong> and that WeChat account data was saved within two weeks following the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Cui Li Jie fails to comply with the court’s order,\u00a0she may face a daily sanction of $1,000 or even prison<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven construction workers\u00a0accuse IPI 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 order instructing Cui to identify and save all telephone data she used or created after March 26, 2020.\u00a0<\/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":"

Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has found Cui Li Jie, former IPI chairwoman, in contempt of court again. She could face a penalty of $1,000 per day or even jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Cui Li Jie, former IPI chairwoman, has been found in contempt of court for deleting WeChat messages, violating a data preservation order related to a lawsuit against IPI for labor abuse and human trafficking. She faces potential daily fines of $1,000 or imprisonment for non-compliance, further exacerbating the regulatory challenges for IPI, whose gaming license is already suspended.","focusai_entities":"Cui Li Jie, IPI, Ramona V. Manglona, Aaron Halegua, Saipan Tribune","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), tech_data (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI License Reinstatement?","query":"What are the specific conditions and timeline for IPI to potentially have its gaming license reinstated, given the ongoing legal challenges and executive misconduct?"},{"label":"ESI Compliance Impact?","query":"How will this ruling on ESI preservation and contempt of court influence future regulatory expectations and compliance frameworks for data management within the iGaming sector?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439,158],"tags":[23908,14213,22674,23907],"class_list":["post-22009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","category-slider-home","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-imperial-pacific","tag-ipi","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009","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=22009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22050,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions\/22050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}