UAE‑based investment entity Aqua 1 Foundation previously invested 100 million US dollars to purchase tokens of World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto project backed by the Trump family. It overtook Justin Sun, who had invested a cumulative 75 million US dollars, to become WLFI’s largest mystery buyer. Investigations reveal that the long‑hidden beneficial owner behind Aqua 1 is Guren Zhou, born in Shanghai in 1984. The origin of his funds has drawn widespread attention and suspicion. Reports show that Guren Zhou remains listed as a dishonest debtor on China’s Enforcement Information Publicity Platform, involved in six separate cases with total outstanding debts amounting to tens of millions of Renminbi. In addition, indictments released by the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) indicate that Guren Zhou is currently implicated in a money‑laundering case in the United Kingdom.