双语：小木匠冒充港商诈骗两地17亿(3)

　　After the first few months, construction was halted due to a shortage of funds. Wang, who had managed to raise money from various channels, including selling the building to property buyers before it was completed and delaying payment to construction contractors, couldn't sustain the expense any more.

　　仅仅几个月，工程就因资金短缺停了下来。王细牛想方设法通过各种渠道聚集资金，包括预售房产和拖欠建筑商工程款，即便如此也无法维持其高昂的开销。

　　A very successful explosionIn 2007, Wang was arrested by the police. It turned out that instead of being a businessman from Hong Kong, he was a former carpenter from Hubei Province. His "Golden Eagle Group" was a shell company registered in Hong Kong with HK$10,000 dollars in assets and not a single employee.

　　随着2007年那次异常成功的爆破，王也被关进了看守所。一个来自香港的企业家转眼变成湖北农村的小木匠。他所谓的“金鹰集团”只不过是花了1万港元在香港注册的没有一个雇员的空壳公司。

　　Further investigation revealed that Hohhot was not Wang's first victim: He played the same trick in 2001 in Yinchuan, the capital city of Ningxia Autonomous Region. In a string of scams conducted from 2001 to 2007, Wang fleeced banks, construction contractors, and private investors for a total of nearly 1.8 billion yuan. On August 21 this year, Wang was sentenced to life in prison for fraud. He recently lost his appeal.

　　进一步调查表明，