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<\/a>GETTY IMAGES – Nicole Meyer Kushner (third from left) attended events in Shanghai last week<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
The company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has pulled out of presentations planned for China this weekend.<\/p>\n
Kushner Companies was scheduled to pitch real estate opportunities to investors in the southern cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou at the weekend.<\/p>\n
But last week, Mr Kushner’s sister, Nicole Meyer Kushner, came under fire for using his name in a pitch.<\/p>\n
Critics accused the business of playing up the family’s White House links.<\/p>\n
The company said the comments were misconstrued but has apologised.<\/p>\n
Ms Meyer and Kushner Companies president Laurent Morali had been included in promotional material for the upcoming events.<\/p>\n
But on Thursday, James Yolles, a spokesman for the firm, said in a statement: “No one from Kushner Companies will be in China this weekend.”<\/p>\n
Ms Meyer had mentioned her brother while urging investors to put $500,000 (\u00a3386,500) into a New Jersey property project through the so-called EB-5 programme.<\/p>\n
The EB-5 visa programme, often used by wealthy Chinese nationals, allows foreign investors a path to a green card if they invest more than $500,000 in a project that creates jobs in the US.<\/p>\n
<\/a>EPA – Mr Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, is a senior White House adviser<\/p><\/div>\n
Critics of the programme say it is used as a means of cheap financing for property developers.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year in March, Kushner Companies ended talks with Chinese firm Anbang Insurance<\/a> over a major redevelopment project in New York City that had raised questions about a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n