A fire broke out on the 18th floor of a hotel where exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui has an apartment following his arrest for multiple federal criminal charges earlier that day in Manhattan, New York. Photo: Screenshot from ABC News

Guo, 52, also known as Kwok Ho Wan or Miles Kwok, was arrested at his apartment in the hotel on Wednesday morning on 11 charges, including leading a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of over $1 billion.

New York City firefighters enter the Sherry-Netherland Hotel residence after the fire broke out. Photo: VCG

Fire department paramedics walk out of the hotel on Wednesday. FBI agents were still inside Guo’s $32 million Manhattan apartment when the fire broke out, according to ABC News. Photo: VCG

Fire department equipment is moved out of the hotel on Wednesday. FBI’s New York Field office is working to determine whether the fire was linked to Guo’s arrest, according to ABC News. Photo: VCG

Firefighters work outside the hotel on Wednesday. The fire was put out and no injuries were reported, a spokesman for the city’s fire department said. Photo: VCG

One of the assets seized by the U.S. Department of Justice in the alleged $1 billion fraud scheme orchestrated by Guo was luxury yacht Lady May, worth approximately $37 million. Photo: U.S. Department of Justice

A custom-built Bugatti sports car, which was used by Guo, worth approximately $4.4 million. Photo: U.S. Department of Justice

Police in Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality show one of the fake government documents produced by two suspected accomplices who helped bolster Guo’s U.S. asylum application in 2018. Photo: Xinhua