A U.S. federal judge approved the search of an iCloud account associated with Zhang's traveling companion, allowing investigators to cross-reference communications and photos with flight, rental car, and neighbor surveillance records.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate work report disclosed that within one year, nationwide procuratorial organs handled as many as 19,900 cases of illegal out-of-area enforcement and profit-driven enforcement, supervised the withdrawal of 2,760 cases, decided not to prosecute 3,539 people, and returned illegal seized, detained, and frozen assets totaling 2.63 billion yuan.
On March 9, 2026, Tianyancha showed that a 9 million yuan stake in Wuhu Dongrunfa Investment Co., Ltd. under Zhao Wei's name was judicially frozen once again by the Dongcheng District Court in Beijing, with the freeze period extended to March 8, 2029; the freeze has been renewed multiple times since 2021.