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文章标题: 【“海归牛人”】 华尔街日报 - 华裔彭丹尼设庞兹骗局:与王军合资开发新疆 + WSJ 图+MV(未证实) (4282 reads)      时间: 2009-4-16 周四, 11:26   

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华裔彭丹尼设庞兹骗局:与王军合资开发新疆(图)

  美国《华尔街日报》网站十五日以头条新闻报导,来自台湾的加州洛杉矶知名华裔金融家彭丹尼(Danny Pang,音译),遭过去的同事指控侵吞公司资金,设计诓骗投资人的「庞兹骗局」,而且拿着虚假的学经历招摇撞骗。彭丹尼公司的发言人对这些指控一概否认。

  彭丹尼现年四十二岁,台湾出生,后来赴美留学定居,二○○二年创立「PEMGROUP」投资公司,担任董事长兼执行长。根据公司网站(https://pemgroup.com)与Google的「页库存档」资料,PEMGROUP主要是协助客户投资固定收益投资商品,获取高额利润,目前有十五家法人客户,管理资产超过四十亿美元(约新台币一千三百五十亿元),员工超过一百人。

  


Courtesy of Nasar Aboubakare
A PEMGroup employee shows off some of CEO Danny Pang's gambling winnings on board a company jet on a 2007 flight back from Las Vegas



  42岁的彭丹尼在中国台湾出生,母亲来自傢具业世家。2002年,彭丹尼与美国商人郑希佩(译音)和其他5名生意伙伴,于加州成立「私募基金管理集团」(PEM集团),主要业务是以折扣价收购老年人的保单,在投保者死亡后收取保单的赔偿金。

  洛城发迹活跃两岸金融界

  PEMGROUP在加州比佛利山、纽约、伦敦、北京、上海、伦敦、台北设有分公司或营业据点。在大陆的公司名称叫做「保盛丰投资谘询有限公司」,在台北则是「ERM Resource Ltd.」,位于敦化南路二段七十六号润泰金融大楼十三楼。

  《华尔街日报》指出,彭丹尼经常回台湾,与台湾金融界关係良好,先后募资数亿美元。永丰金控、华南金控、台中商业银行、渣打国际商业银行都曾买进PEMGROUP的票据,利率高于市场水平。

  另据PEMGROUP网站资料,该公司长期赞助台湾两位网球好手詹咏然与庄佳容。

  彭丹尼在中国也相当活跃,曾与中信集团前董事长王军(中共元老王震之子)合资设立「中国天然投资控股有限公司」,计画大举投资新疆的矿业。去年四川发生汶川大地震,PEMGROUP捐款一百万美元赈灾。

  伪照执行长签名盗领公款

  然而《华尔街日报》引述「Sky Capital Partners」董事长兼执行长徐麦可(Michael Hsu,音译)的说法,彭丹尼在一九九七年任职该公司合伙人时,伪造徐麦可与执行长的签名,盗领三百万美元。当时徐麦可因不希望家丑外扬而没有报警,且彭丹尼家族是该公司的大股东。徐麦可表示,这笔款项后来追回约三分之二,彭丹尼当然是捲铺盖走人。

  另一指控者阿布巴凯(Nasar Aboubakare)和彭丹尼的关係更为複杂,他是PEMGROUP的前任总裁,与彭丹尼同年,两人一度亲如兄弟,却在二○○七年被彭丹尼开革,理由是他收受客户三百万美元回扣、在办公室男女关係不检。

  阿布巴凯与PEMGROUP的官司仍在进行,他指称二○○七年初,彭丹尼指示他与其他高阶主管,将一笔投资的保险额度大幅灌水,从三千一百六十万美元膨胀到一亿零八百万美元,诓骗台湾的投资人。阿布巴凯并爆料说,彭丹尼回台湾都住晶华酒店,还在酒店裡召妓。

  募资金充利润学经历不实

  PEMGROUP主要业务之一是以折扣价收购老年人的寿险保单,在投保人死亡之后收取保费。阿布巴凯表示二○○七年某日,彭丹尼对他坦承近来公司状况不好,他只能先挪用新吸收的资金,充当旧有投资人的利润,亦即典型的「庞兹骗局」。

  彭丹尼宣称毕业于加州大学尔湾分校,有生物学与物理学两个学士学位,外加企管硕士(MBA)学位。然《华尔街日报》向尔湾分校查证时,校方却表示从学籍资料来看,彭丹尼只在一九八六年就读一个学期,并未取得任何学位。

  此外彭丹尼自称曾任职摩根士丹利公司(Morgan Stanley),官拜资深副总裁与高科技企业併购顾问。《华尔街日报》也向摩根士丹利查证,结果同样查无此人。彭丹尼还是一家创投公司「Frontier Group」的合资人,这家由美国前国防部长卡路奇创办的公司最近表示彭丹尼已经被除名。不过该公司网站仍然看得到他名字。

  查夫外遇妻遭谋杀

  彭丹尼的妻子于1997年中被枪杀,疑凶无罪释放,有陪审员怀疑彭丹尼买凶杀妻,但检察官认为没有证据显示彭与案件有关。

  死时33岁的彭贾尼(译音)曾做脱衣舞孃,与彭丹尼结婚前也有过一段婚姻,育有两名子女。她与彭丹尼的婚姻并不和谐,警方曾4度接报家庭暴力事件,在1993年的一次,贾尼报称害怕丈夫「会杀死她」。

  贾尼称,彭丹尼把她父母的住宅套现,得来的钱花在「赌博、女人和酒」上,有一次,彭丹尼把她的鼻樑打碎,威迫她从银行提取7万美元,然后一晚输清。据悉,彭丹尼从未因家暴案被起诉。

  97年5月,贾尼聘请私家侦探调查丈夫外遇,就在约定与侦探见面当天,一名衣着光鲜的男子登门造访,问清楚她是否彭太太后,便擎枪指吓。家佣听到彭贾尼尖叫后,看见她在屋内四窜,但最终还是被射杀,当时5岁的孩子还在身边。



Danny and Sheanna Pang at a fall 2007 cancer benefit in Hollywood
  彭识疑凶惹买凶杀妻联想

  警方调查凶案期间,彭与贾尼的前夫争夺她的75万美元保险赔偿的管理权,该笔赔偿的受益人是贾尼两名子女,彭丹尼最终败诉。

  凶案事发4年后,警方拘捕一名疑犯,由于该名疑犯认识彭丹尼,令人怀疑彭涉案,彭的律师否认,彭亦没有被落案起诉。陪审团最终以10比2裁定疑犯罪名不成立,一名陪审员说:「我们许多人认为彭先生谋杀她或买凶把她杀死」,原因是她妻子想离婚,而且知道彭太多业务。 

  疑虚报履历好赌成性

  《华尔街日报》调查发现,彭丹尼的履历表宣称拥有工商管理硕士学位,但大学方面无相关记录,履历表又称他曾任摩根士丹利高级副主席和高级科技併购顾问,但大摩亦无聘用他的记录。

  据报道,42岁的彭丹尼于青少年时期赴美,在1988至1989年间,曾任加州大学亚太区学生及职员协会主席,是位学生领袖。不过,大学记录显示,彭丹尼只于1986年就读了1个夏季,从未获颁学位。

  大学发言人解释:「他可以在校园出没,做个魅力先生就可获选为主席,他们怎知道他是不是学生呢?」彭解释,他使用中文名取得学位,但拒绝透露名字;数周前他承诺提供学位证据,但不了了之。

  赌城赢大钱万元钞票掷僱员

  PEM集团前合伙人郑希佩(译音)说,他以为彭是富商才游说他合伙,其后才发现彭丹尼债务缠身。他形容彭是「老练的大话精,说谎面不改容」。

  郑又指,彭是个赌徒,经常听到他用电话落注,每年都去拉斯维加斯赌城3次,而且有一些凶神恶煞的男子不时登门拜访。彭曾用专机接载女员工参加赌城派对,赢了大钱,回程途中,其行李箱载满现金,他将大叠大叠1万美元钞票掷向女僱员。

  郑和多名合作伙伴于2003年辞职,向PEM集团兴讼,指控彭丹尼利用相近名字的公司筹集资金,但彭否认。
Nasar Aboubakare says he was told the firm was involved in a Ponzi scheme


  「庞氏骗局」层出不穷

  小资料 「庞氏骗局」特点是虚报高息集资敛财,源于意大利人查尔斯.庞兹。一战结束后,庞兹利用国际经济体系和货币金融体系的溷乱,宣称购买欧洲的某种邮政票据可获取暴利,并许诺所有投资在45天之内都可以获得50%的回报,结果一年内从4万美国人手中集资1,500万美元(约1.2亿港元)。虽然庞兹本人于1949年在巴西穷困潦倒而死,但以其命名的「庞氏骗局」却在国际金融界长盛不衰,如罗斯的「连环信」骗局、英国的女性传销骗局、阿尔及利亚的「金字塔」传销骗局乃至新近的美国马多夫基金弊案等。


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PEMGroup's Gulfstream IV jet, said to be used for personal as well as business travel.





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LOS ANGELES -- At a charity gala in Los Angeles, a young private-equity executive named Danny Pang showed he had made it to the big time. Mr. Pang paid $100,000 to help stage the breast-cancer fund-raiser 18 months ago. Media mogul Sumner Redstone was one of his co-sponsors. Mr. Pang had his picture taken with actress Felicity Huffman of "Desperate Housewives."

Mr. Pang's résumé depicts a glittering success story: a Taiwanese immigrant who earned an M.B.A., worked on Wall Street and now heads a $4 billion investment fund. He also became a partner in another fund firm with business luminaries such as Frank Carlucci, the former defense secretary and ex-Carlyle Group chairman, and former Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Norman Augustine.

But both Mr. Pang's past and his business may not be quite as they appear. The university from which he says he has an M.B.A. and another degree says it has no record of either. Morgan Stanley, where Mr. Pang's bio says he was a senior vice president and senior high-tech merger adviser, says it can find no record it ever employed him.


Questions have arisen about the credentials of Danny Pang, the head of Private Equity Management Group in Irvine, Calif. WSJ Page One editor Mike Williams discusses.
A former president of the firm Mr. Pang heads -- Private Equity Management Group Inc. in Irvine, Calif. -- says Mr. Pang told him in 2007 that part of the enterprise involved a Ponzi scheme. The executive also alleges that Mr. Pang improperly used some of investors' cash for the firm's benefit and once told him to deceive investors with a fake insurance policy.

And at a venture-capital firm where Mr. Pang worked earlier, the CEO says he fired Mr. Pang for stealing $3 million from an escrow account in June 1997.

That was a few weeks after a well-dressed man came to Mr. Pang's California home, confirmed that the woman who answered the door was Mr. Pang's wife, and shot her dead. The murder remains unsolved.

Mr. Pang declined to be interviewed. Through a spokesman, he described almost every allegation about him as a fabrication. There is no claim of any impropriety at the private-equity firm where he was a partner with Messrs. Carlucci and Augustine. This week, after The Wall Street Journal had inquired about Mr. Pang's role at that firm, called Frontier Group, a representative of the firm said Mr. Pang was no longer a partner there.

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PEMGroup's lawyer sent this letter to its ex-president, Mr. Aboubakare, as part of settlement discussions. He says he was "flabbergasted" by the letter. PEMGroup says the letter's language was suggested by Mr. Aboubakare's lawyer, who denies that.PEMGroup and Mr. Aboubakare are embroiled in an arbitration proceeding. In its filing, PEMGroup accused Mr. Aboubakare of embezzlement and sexual misconduct. Mr. Aboubakare admits to taking kickbacks, but says he returned the money, and admits he had an affair with an employee. In his filing, Mr. Aboubakare has accused PEMGroup of misusing investor funds and alleged that Mr. Pang once admitted the firm was involved in a Ponzi scheme. PEMGroup denies any misdeeds and says the Ponzi allegation is a "total fabrication."In one of two police domestic-violence reports in court records, the now-deceased Janie Pang accused her husband Danny Pang of domestic violence and expresses fear that Mr. Pang might "kill her." No criminal charges were brought. Mr. Pang denies the events in the reports took place, saying any such reports must be confusing him with another Danny Pang.Document one is a genuine insurance policy purchased by PEMGroup to reassure investors that their money was secure. Document two is a forgery. Mr. Aboubakare claims he and another executive did the forgery at the behest of Mr. Pang, because the genuine policy didn't provide sufficient coverage. PEMGroup denies Mr. Pang authorized any such thing and says the fake was never shown to investors.PEMGroup recently sought to get its ex-president to withdraw the allegations he had made. As part of an effort to settle a legal dispute, the firm asked him to tell the Journal that what he told it before was untrue. It also offered a $500,000 initial payment that would be triggered by evidence the Journal wasn't doing an article. The ex-president refused the offer.

A second accuser did retract one assertion. The venture-capital CEO who said Mr. Pang stole money and was fired later sent the Journal a letter saying Mr. Pang left voluntarily. He didn't address his theft allegation.

Danny Pang was born Dec. 15, 1966, in Taiwan, where, according to people who know him, his mother's family was the wealthy owner of a furniture-making business. He came to the U.S. as a youth. Later, at the University of California, Irvine, he became a student leader, chairman of the Asian Pacific Student & Staff Association in 1988-89.

University records, however, show a "Danny Pang" with his Social Security number and birth date enrolled only for a single summer term, in 1986, and don't show that anyone with his name or Social Security number ever received the degrees he lists. Asked how someone unenrolled could be a student leader, a university spokeswoman said, "He could just walk on campus, be Mr. Personality and get elected chairman. How would they know if he was a student?"

Mr. Pang said through PEMGroup's spokesman that he got his degrees under a Chinese name he won't disclose. He said several weeks ago he would provide proof of the degrees, but hasn't. He similarly said he would track down a former colleague at Morgan Stanley to verify his employment there, but hasn't.

In the mid-1990s Mr. Pang became a partner at Sky Capital Partners, a venture-capital firm with offices in San Mateo, Calif., and Taiwan. Its president and CEO, Michael Hsu, said in an interview that Mr. Pang later "stole my personal money" by getting Mr. Hsu to set up a brokerage account and then using some of the cash in it himself.

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PEMGroup's Gulfstream IV jet, said to be used for personal as well as business travel.
Later, in June 1997, as Sky Capital was about to close an investment in a Silicon Valley start-up, Mr. Hsu said in an email Mr. Pang "stole 3 million dollars from an investment escrow account by faking signature of mine and CEO of our investment target." When confronted, according to Mr. Hsu, Mr. Pang said he "just needed the money."

Mr. Hsu says he didn't report the theft to police because it was an embarrassing internal scandal and he was asked not to by Mr. Pang's family, a big investor in Sky Capital. Mr. Hsu says Mr. Pang traveled to Taiwan and confessed the theft to Sky Capital's board. Mr. Hsu also says he recovered about two-thirds of the stolen money, in part by seizing Mr. Pang's share of the venture-capital firm. In a March interview and in his email, Mr. Hsu said Sky Capital fired Mr. Pang.

Through his spokesman, Mr. Pang denied either stealing or being fired, and provided a letter from Mr. Hsu, dated April 8, that didn't address his theft allegations but that called Mr. Pang's departure voluntary. Asked about the letter, Mr. Hsu said he wrote it because he didn't want to "get involved into a dispute."

PEMGroup took shape several years later. A local entrepreneur named Hiep Trinh says he met Mr. Pang and floated the idea of a fund that would buy life-insurance policies from elderly people and collect when they died. The two men and five others formed PEMGroup.

"We started talking to [Mr. Pang] because we thought he had a lot of money," says Mr. Trinh. He says he later realized his new partner was in debt. He also says he was disturbed when Mr. Pang would make improbable claims about his wealth and falsely tell outsiders the partners knew each other from college. "He was a consummate liar," Mr. Trinh says. "He could lie about anything with a straight face."

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A PEMGroup employee shows off some of CEO Danny Pang's gambling winnings on board a company jet on a 2007 flight back from Las Vegas.
Mr. Trinh says he concluded Mr. Pang was a big gambler, because "I would hear him on the phone making bets all the time," and tough-looking men kept dropping by to see him. The PEMGroup spokesman said Mr. Pang visits Las Vegas about three times a year and has no idea what the reference to tough-looking men is about.

Mr. Trinh, one of several partners who resigned in 2003, is involved in a lawsuit with PEMGroup, which has accused him of improperly using a similar firm name to raise money for other ventures. He denies doing so.

Starting with its first fund in 2004, PEMGroup has raised hundreds of millions of dollars through Taiwanese banks. It offers them notes that pay above-market interest, notes the banks can reoffer to individual clients. (PEMGroup says it doesn't raise money in the U.S.) The Asian banks include SinoPac Financial Holdings Co., Taichung Commercial Bank Co., Hua Nan Financial Holdings Co. and a unit of Standard Chartered PLC.

One way PEMGroup has used cash it raises is to invest in debt of U.S. companies. For instance, it lent money to Emrise Corp., an electronics concern in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. That firm's chief financial officer, John Donovan, calls Mr. Pang "a very sharp guy." PEMGroup also invests in U.S. time-share properties and buys the rights to payouts on life-insurance policies.

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Nasar Aboubakare says he was told the firm was involved in a Ponzi scheme
Several associates describe Mr. Pang, who speaks in heavily accented English, as a shrewd judge of character, adept at discerning what motivates people. They say he wins trust in part by projecting an air of success -- wearing expensive suits, staying in top hotels and reciting career accomplishments. "He's very, very convincing in the beginning," says Nasar Aboubakare, a California entrepreneur who put up most of PEMGroup's initial capital, became its president -- and now is a detractor.

Mr. Aboubakare, 42 years old, who says he and Mr. Pang were once like brothers, was fired in 2007 and is embroiled in a bitter battle with Mr. Pang and PEMGroup, both in California state court and in an arbitration action.

PEMGroup's spokesman says Mr. Aboubakare was fired for taking $3 million in kickbacks from a vendor and for sexual misconduct. Mr. Aboubakare admits taking the kickbacks, which he says he returned, and notes that he wasn't fired until many months later. He says he had an affair with an employee but denies that it constituted misconduct.

In turn, he makes numerous allegations. As PEMGroup's No. 2 executive, he says, he participated in, and heard about, instances of improper conduct.

Mr. Pang made frequent trips to Taiwan to recruit bank investors and would stay in the presidential suite at the Grand Formosa Regent Taipei. There, according to Mr. Aboubakare, to Mr. Trinh and to one other ex-partner, Mr. Pang frequently entertained prostitutes. The PEMGroup spokesman called the allegation false.

In 2006, according to Mr. Aboubakare, PEMGroup raised a fund that was supposed to be invested in time-share resorts in the U.S. But when PEMGroup couldn't find enough properties to invest in, he says, Mr. Pang decided to use about $15 million of the money to buy the firm a Gulfstream IV jet. Mr. Aboubakare said Mr. Pang often used it for personal travel; he called the purchase a misuse of investor funds.

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Danny Pang's biography was posted on PEMGroup's Web site before it was taken down last week. His educational credentials and his employment at Morgan Stanley couldn't be confirmed.
The PEMGroup spokesman denied any misuse of money, saying the fund's prospectus permitted investing unused proceeds in "other instruments." The spokesman said this was done by making a secured loan to an affiliated firm that used the cash to buy the jet, a loan that was repaid in six months.

On July 12, 2007, Mr. Pang used the jet to take a group of women from PEMGroup's California offices to Las Vegas for a party. Mr. Aboubakare says that on the return flight the next day, Mr. Pang, having won at a casino, "had a briefcase stuffed with cash and he started throwing money to the girls, stacks of $10,000. I thought it wasn't right to treat the girls from the office that way, like we were pimps and gamblers."

PEMGroup's spokesman confirmed the firm took the women to Las Vegas -- "as a reward for good work" -- and said Mr. Pang "did show them his winnings."

To reassure investors, PEMGroup often purchased insurance on its investments. Mr. Aboubakare says some of this coverage was fake.

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Danny and Sheanna Pang at a fall 2007 cancer benefit in Hollywood.
In early 2007, he says, a PEMGroup affiliate called GVEC Resource IV bought a $31.6 million policy from a unit of HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. to cover investments in time-share properties. But because the policy wasn't large enough, Mr. Aboubakare says, Mr. Pang directed him and another executive to create a phony document raising the covered amount to $108 million. Mr. Aboubakare says he personally showed this fake policy to investors and sent it to PEMGroup's Taiwan office.

HCC, shown documents, confirmed that the $31.6 million policy was genuine but said the $108 million policy was not. "It looks to me like a forgery," an HCC official said.

The spokesman for PEMGroup said the firm and Mr. Pang never authorized any forgery and didn't discover the insurance document until after Mr. Aboubakare left, adding that to the firm's knowledge, the document wasn't shown to investors or sent to Taiwan.

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Private-equity executive Danny Pang -- shown with actress Felicity Huffman, center, and breast-cancer activist Fran Visco -- at a fund-raiser in Los Angeles that he paid $100,000 to help sponsor 18 months ago.
Part of PEMGroup's business is buying life-insurance policies from older people at a discount, collecting after they die. But a problem arose in 2007, Mr. Aboubakare says, when policies weren't paying off at the projected rate -- "everybody lived a long time."

According to him, the remedy was a Ponzi scheme, an arrangement in which existing investors are paid with money from new ones. Mr. Aboubakare says that to meet the above-market interest due investors in Taiwan, PEMGroup used cash from a new fund to "pay earlier life settlements that were nonperforming. That's when the whole Ponzi scheme started." One day in mid-2007, he says, Mr. Pang came into his office and said: "Nasar, I want you to know we are in a Ponzi scheme." He adds that Mr. Pang stated he would fix the problem by doing well on another investment.

Mr. Aboubakare says when he persisted in asking questions about the arrangement, he was "kept out of the loop" and then in September 2007 was fired. He made his Ponzi-scheme allegation both in interviews and in the arbitration action that followed his firing.

The PEMGroup spokesman, Mike Sitrick, called the idea of a Ponzi scheme a "total fabrication." He said the firm set aside all the money needed to pay investors. Several investors say the firm has always met its interest and principal obligations.

The arbitration action after Mr. Aboubakare's firing involved, among other things, the value of his 27% share of PEMGroup. Settlement talks began a few months ago. They intensified after PEMGroup learned Mr. Aboubakare was in touch with the Journal and Barry Minkow. Mr. Minkow is a onetime teenage investment whiz who went to prison for the ZZZZ Best affair, a prominent 1980s scandal,and now is a pastor who seeks to expose frauds.

A lawyer for PEMGroup, Charles Schmerler of Fulbright & Jaworski, proposed on March 17 that PEMGroup would pay Mr. Aboubakare at least $500,000 to settle the dispute. The letter states that the $500,000 payment would be triggered by evidence the Journal had dropped plans for an article. The lawyer drafted a letter for Mr. Aboubakare to send the Journal. In it, he was to say that his statements to the Journal and to Mr. Minkow were false and that he had made them partly because stress "affected my judgment and mental well-being."

PEMGroup said this draft letter was part of lengthy settlement negotiations. It said the language was suggested by Mr. Aboubakare's attorney, who denies this. Mr. Schmerler declined to comment.

Mr. Aboubakare acknowledges that he would have been willing to stop talking to the Journal to obtain a settlement, and that he initially talked to the paper to put pressure on his former company. But Mr. Aboubakare says he "was flabbergasted" by the proposal and rejected the idea out of hand. He says he stands by his allegations.

Last week, PEMGroup took down its extensive Web site, which included Mr. Pang's biography, leaving a message that a new site was being developed.

—John Hechinger in Boston and Ting-I Tsai in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this article.
Write to Mark Maremont at [email protected]

Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A1

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB123974073916318035.html

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