New | Four months after prostitution arrest, influential investor Charles Xue remains uncharged

Charles Xue Biqun, better known for his online alias Xue Manzi, was detained in August in Beijing on suspicion of soliciting prostitutes

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Chinese-American venture capitalist Xue attends a meeting at the 2013 China Internet Conference in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

Published: 2:45pm, 11 Jan 2014Updated: 2:48pm, 13 Jan 2014

Chinese-American investor and influential blogger Charles Xue Biqun is yet to be charged by state prosecutors, four months after he was detained by police in a Beijing prostitution bust, Chinese media reported this week.

The 60-year-old Xue, who is better known by his online alias "Xue Manzi", was detained in August in a residential compound in Beijing on suspicion of soliciting prostitutes.

He made his last public appearance repenting on CCTV while confessing an "addiction to prostitutes", and has since been absent from mainstream media coverage.

Yet Xue returned to the limelight this week after a lawyer posted a message on social media saying he had run into Xue in a Beijing detention centre while visiting his own client in an unrelated case.

"Today I also ran into Xue Manzi wearing his jail vest," Beijing lawyer Zhou Ze wrote Wednesday on his Weibo microblog.

The website of the Communst Party mouthpiece People's Daily reported on Friday that Xue was yet to be charged for a crime, four months after his arrest. Police were still "investigating" Xue's case, it quoted an unnamed lawyer representing Xue as saying.