Interacom Asia Group Limited (交流亚洲集团有限公司), registered in Hong Kong in November 2014, is a private company with company number 2164889. According to a Hong Kong Companies Registry annual return filed in November 2023, Ma Chao (马超) is listed as the company’s sole director and 100 percent shareholder, with a correspondence address in Beijing’s Shunyi District. In 2013, Interacom invested approximately 103 million dollars alongside China Development Bank and CCTV in the South African media group Independent Media. During a public testimony before South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation inquiry in 2019, Independent Media chairman Iqbal Survé confirmed the investment structure, saying that “interest payments to the Chinese had to be made because that was the structure of the transaction.” According to State Media Monitor, ownership is now channeled through “Interacom Investment Holding Ltd, jointly controlled by CITVC and CADFund,” with CITVC being wholly owned by China’s state-run broadcaster CCTV.