Ex-Blackwater chief linked to Xinjiang ‘training center’
|Hong Kong (CNN)A company that counts former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince among its investors said it plans to build a “training center” in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, an area where the Chinese government is accused of carrying out a wide-ranging security clampdown targeting Muslim minority groups.
Frontier Services Group (FSG), a Hong Kong-based company which specializes in providing security, logistics and insurance for businesses operating in hostile environments, made the announcement in a Chinese-language news release posted to its website.
The release, which provided few details about the training center itself, detailed a handful of deals announced between local authorities and CITIC, a massive Chinese conglomerate that is the biggest stakeholder in FSG. The release has since been pulled from FSG’s homepage, though a cached version remains viewable.