Fan Bingbing gone missing amid tax scandal?

2 Aug – Rumours are rife that actress Fan Bingbing has gone missing following the ongoing investigation regarding tax evasion supposedly committed by the actress' studio.

As reported on Mingpao, last week, a Chinese media, "The Economic Observer" published a report citing an unnamed source that the police has taken away a financial professional associated with a listed company, which reportedly was suspected to have been helping Fan's company in hiding and destroying evidence.

It was later reported that the actress and her brother Fan Chengcheng have now been barred from leaving the country.

The report had since been taken down from the website.

However, the Chinese media also revealed that they have not been able to contact the actress for her response. Meanwhile, fans noticed that the actress has not been making public appearances since the scandal made the news, and have yet to update her social media accounts.

According to a netizen, she was last seen visiting sick children at a hospital in Shanghai on 1 July.

The tax scandal sparked earlier this year, when television personality Cui Yongyuan alleged that an unnamed celebrity has been involved in a "yin yang" contract - in which a celebrity or a company signed two different contracts in order to evade paying a huge sum of tax.

Fan's studio had since dismissed the allegations, while Cui apologised and stated that he was not talking about the actress in his post.

(Photo Source: Fan Bingbing Instagram)