Ji's junior partner and longtime friend Ancle Hsu also resigned as acting chief executive of Apex.
So why hasn't Ji, who was never charged with any crime, booked a ticket home?
The next morning Minyang police burst into Ji's room on the 18th floor and arrested him.
Ji says he welcomes international customers, but currently 90% of Hanting guests are Chinese business travelers.
David Ji was born Ji Long Fen on Aug. 5, 1952 in Jintan, Jiangsu Province.
Entrepreneur David Ji's Chinese accusers keep telling the world they've settled their commercial differences with him.
In his view, Ji -- as he called his son -- could do no wrong.
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Last October, the United States designated the Jemaah Islamiyah Islamic (JI) group a terrorist organization.
Mr Ba'asyir, 64, has repeatedly denied links with terrorism and has denied that JI even exists.
As a result, JI lost any shred of popular support it had once enjoyed.
The 30-year-old, whose real name is Jung Ji-hoon, is doing compulsory military service until this year.
Also giving evidence, Everton fan John Murmame said he heard Blything shout abuse at Ji-Sung.
Ji was out on qubao houshen, a type of noncustodial detention akin to being out on bail.
JI's breeding-grounds points to the network still being able to lay down firm foundations for the future.
JI's alleged operations chief, Hambali, future convictions seem uncertain unless there is a change of heart there.
David Ji has spent nearly a year in custody in China without being charged with a crime.
But on his recent trip to America he announced that Thailand had arrested three suspected JI members.
Liang met his future business partner Ji Qi when Ji applied to sell Oracle's software in China.
In 1993 Ji finally could afford to bring his wife and daughter to live with him in America.
Orders exploded, and Ji expanded to four vendors, including Changhong, and began selling to Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
But Ji believes that foreign competitors will find it hard to compete with Hanting on its home turf.
In early January Ji was escorted back to Minyang and held, under guard, at Fu La Shan Hotel.
JI's military leaders, the group's current plans and the extent of its network remain something of a mystery.
In the same month the World Poker Tour introduced Chinese poker, or Tuo La Ji, to television viewers.
The JI has been joined by the rest of the opposition in calling for the prime minister's ouster.
In the past few months, police in the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore have arrested suspected JI members.
In August Ji was granted a qubao houshen, a type of noncustodial detention akin to getting out on bail.
Taz would shout Ji's name so loud it would bounce off the hardwood floors and through the cavernous gym.
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Meanwhile, Jean Ji frets over what may be in store for her father.
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