SHANGHAI — The Chinese consortium that agreed to buy AC Milan in a multimillion-dollar deal this summer has been hit with new forgery claims, local media said Friday.In August, Silvio Berlusconi agreed to sell more than 99% of AC Milan to a little-known Chinese consortium named Sino-Europe Sports Investment Management Changxing. The deal valued the club at €740m including debt.But the Chinese group provided a forged bank statement to prove its financing abilities, China’s respected business magazine Caixin reported.The consortium provided a statement issued by the Bank of Dongguan, a regional commercial lender based in the southern province of Guangdong, saying it would provide assistance to finance the deal.But Bank of Dongguan denied they ever provided such a document to the Chinese group, Caixin cited the lender as saying. The Chinese consortium includes businessman Yonghong Li, the Haixia Capital group, and other private and public Chinese companies.The Chinese company has alrea...
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