Zhou Zhengyi Has Lost His Best Friend

When Zhou Zhengyi went to prison in Shanghai in 2004, he was

treated like a king – lavish meals, the use of his mobile phone so that he

could run his business and a year off his sentence.

Once the richest man in China’s richest city, the stock and property tycoon

benefited from his close relationship with the Communist Party chief of Shanghai and the

50,000-…