{"id":25892,"date":"2021-12-23T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25892"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:39:48","slug":"ipis-former-chairwoman-faces-penalty-of-us200-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ipis-former-chairwoman-faces-penalty-of-us200-a-day","title":{"rendered":"IPI’s former chairwoman faces penalty of US$200 a day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has ruled that Cui Li Jie has failed to provide backups of her electronically stored information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.-\u00a0Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona\u00a0<\/strong>has\u00a0ordered Imperial Pacific International’s former chairwoman Cui Li Jie<\/strong> to pay a daily sanction of US$200\u00a0per day for failing to comply with a court order to hand over electronic data. The fine for contempt of court will apply from today (December 23) until Cui complies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The order relates to a case in which seven construction workers\u00a0accused IPI of labour abuse and human trafficking<\/strong>. Cui Li Jie was named third-party witness in the case.\u00a0On 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

Judge Manglona has also approved the plaintiff’s attorney’s fees and the fees and instructed Cui to submit a sworn statement regarding her iTunes account no later than tomorrow (December 24). A hearing has been arranged for 8.30am on December 29, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June,\u00a0<\/strong>Cui Li Jie<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>said she 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

In August, Cui Li Jie<\/a> was also found to have breached a court preservation order <\/strong>that obliged her to keep data from her mobile phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has ruled that Cui Li Jie has failed to provide backups of her electronically stored information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has ordered Cui Li Jie, former chairwoman of Imperial Pacific International (IPI), to pay a daily sanction of US$200 for failing to comply with a court order to provide electronically stored information. This contempt of court ruling stems from a labor abuse and human trafficking case where Cui Li Jie was named a third-party witness, highlighting significant governance and compliance failures within a licensed iGaming entity's former leadership.","focusai_entities":"Cui Li Jie, Imperial Pacific International, Ramona V. Manglona, Juan T. Lizama, John Mo Shi Jian, University of Macau","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.97), operator_casino (0.85), tech_data (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI Licensing Impact?","query":"What are the potential implications of this contempt ruling for Imperial Pacific International's B2C licensing status and operational continuity in the Northern Mariana Islands?"},{"label":"Governance Framework Failures?","query":"How does Cui Li Jie's persistent non-compliance with court orders reflect on the efficacy of IPI's historical corporate governance frameworks and executive oversight?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[14213,22674],"class_list":["post-25892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-imperial-pacific","tag-ipi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892","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=25892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25899,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892\/revisions\/25899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}