Dietl himself visited China after signing the deal, and has bragged both about the deal and about doing surveillance on one of the Communist Party’s most high-profile targets, the Manhattan-based billionaire Miles Guo.
As a private investigator, Dietl enjoys access to more law enforcement information than a normal member of the public. However, he has also been accused of misusing it.over alleged sex assault, says in her suit that Dietl provided Giuliani with the names of FBI agents who had questioned her in 2019. Giuliani denies the allegations.
Dietl this year claimed to have cut connections with the Chinese, but his company, which had sales of $10m in 2022, is still listed as a link on theIn this Federal Communications Commission declaration in June 2017, Dietl’s company told the federal regulator that it had no foreign ownership – but CSP had bought 50 per cent of the company two years earlier.
“They came to me, and wanted to invest in my company,” he said. “I realized they were Communists and they had me meeting with these Communist Chinese generals when I was in Beijing, China,” he said. Until that point, he said, “I didn’t know.” Dietl said: “They own nothing of my company. I paid them money and got rid of them before the pandemic. I do not do business with Communist China.”
Operations Fox Hunt and Sky Net are China’s leader-for-life Xi Jinping’s attempt to round up dissident voices abroad and return them to face prosecution in China.“Since its launch in 2014 as part of [Chinese leader] Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, 10,000 are claimed to have been successfully returned from over 120 countries around the globe under Sky Net operations,”, a Madrid-based think tank and human rights organization that has tracked abuses by Chinese security officials since 2009.
Dietl said this year that he targeted Miles Guo, a billionaire who is one of China’s most prominent dissidents and who lived in a Fifth Avenue apartment and the Sherry-Netherland hotel until his arrest by the FBI on fraud charges.Liu founded CSP in China in 1994.
In February 2016, CSP posted bulletins to its Chinese language web site that it had acquired BDA, then in English on March 1 said that it had acquired 50 percent of BDA’s equity. After the deal, Dietl bought a waterfront 1,700 square foot home in the Town of Southampton for $1.5 million, public records show.
In 2018, Dietl dined at Sparks Steak House in midtown Manhattan, with his own staff and what his colleague Patrick Hurley said was a representative of the Chinese government.In 2016, Hurley announced on Twitter that BDA had also established a partnership with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, a state-owned company that“This partnership is mutually beneficial giving each company tremendous added global capability,” Hurley tweeted in a post that has since been taken down.