An Irish businessman and father of four who’s been banned from leaving China for two years has spoken out to the media for the first time. Richard O’Halloran, 45, a director of China International Aviation Leasing Service (CALS), left his Dublin home in February 2019 for Shanghai, China. What he thought was a short business trip turned out to be two years in limbo, after he was caught up in an investigation into his employer Min Jiedong’s crowdfunding activities. “I’m innocent. I’ve done nothing wrong,” in an interview aired on Thursday, O’Halloran told Yvonne Murray from Ireland’s public broadcaster RTÉ. Min, O’Halloran’s employer, invested in dozens of countries around the globe, including aircraft leasing company CALS Ireland, in which he was the chairman and the main shareholder. Min’s funding had been raised through peer-to-peer crowdfunding, in what he boasted as a pioneering business model “P2F2B+PDP (Person-to-Financial institution-to-Business+Pre-Delivery Payment).” Min’s business model was widely …