He is a well-known and wealthy man worldwide. (AFLO)Jun Kitajima, former senior strategy officer at the Danish Embassy in Tokyo and an expert on international lobbying, explains the background behind the lawsuit.  In the U.S., under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) enacted in 1938, anyone who engages in political activities at the request of a foreign government is required to register his or her name, amount of compensation, and record of activities with the Attorney General. The intent is to make influence operations against the U.S. transparent through disclosure. Mr. Wynn was notified by the Department of Justice’s National Security Bureau three times in May 2018, October 2021, and April 2022, but he refused to register, which led to the current lawsuit. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Wynn was asked by Sun Lijun, a senior Chinese Public Security Ministry official, to deport “a wealthy Chinese national living in the United States” back in 2017 when he was Republican Finance Committee chairman. Sun Lijun was a man who had earned a master’s degree in public health in Australia, and who had been a stalwart in suppressing pro-democracy activities at the Ministry of Public Security, including rounding up human rights lawyers (he later lost his post in April 2020 for bribery and other offenses). The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been working on the case against Mr. Wynn since the U.S. government announced its decision to file a lawsuit against him in December 2009.   The U.S. Department of Justice has not revealed the name of the targeted “wealthy Chinese living in the United States”. However, it is believed to be Guo Wengui, 52, a.k.a. Miles Kwok, who at the time was the focus of international attention for exposing corruption in the Chinese Communist Party. Guo Wengui was a businessman who made a huge fortune in real estate development during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but fled to the United States in 2015 before being arrested by the Chinese government for corruption and other crimes (he was later declared internationally wanted by Interpol at the request of the Chinese government). Since then, through YouTube and other media, he has been accusing Wang Qishan, the current vice president of the Communist Party, and other senior officials of “corruption” from outside the country, and has become a “thorn in the side” of the Chinese Communist Party, which he wants him removed at any cost.   Around May 2017, Sun Lijun contacted Elliot Broidy, a prominent Republican fundraiser and businessman, and asked him to lobby the White House to oust Guo Wengui. Incidentally, it was Jho Low, a wealthy overseas Chinese millionaire, who arranged between the two parties. He is one of the central figures in the 1MDB Goldman Sachs case, the largest foreign official bribery scandal in history, which is set in Malaysia. Upon receiving the request, Broidy immediately spoke to Mr. Wynn, who is friends with President Trump. He provided him with documents, including a passport photo of Kuo Wengui, and asked him to talk to President Trump.