Zhao Wei, husband banned from capital markets for 5 years

Billionaire actress Zhao Wei and her husband Huang Youlong have been banned from China's securities markets for five years for market violations, according to a filing by Zhejiang Sunriver Culture Co, which Zhao's company sought to acquire in February this year but failed.

Zhao and Huang were given a 300,000 yuan ($45,180) fine each, it said.

Forty-one-year-old Zhao is widely known not only as a celebrity in the entertainment industry but also as an investor. She and her husband hold wealth of more than 5 billion yuan ($753 million), according to a regulatory filing earlier this year.