Sir Jean Etienne Moilin Ah-Chuen (Chinese: 朱梅麟; 1911–1991) was a Sino-Mauritian politician and businessman from Mauritius.
[1] He is also the founder ABC Group, a diversified conglomerate with investments in banking, foods industry, automobile, and shipping in Mauritius.
[2] His father, Chu Wei Chuen, arrived in Mauritius from Meizhou Prefecture, Guangdong, China in 1887.
In 1931, at the age of twenty, Jean set up his own convenience shop in Port-Louis at 18 Queen Street.
He took over the small business and expanded it into a highly diversified company now includes departments dedicated to car imports, banking, financial and insurance services, foods production and distribution, and shipping and freight.
At the March 1959 general elections he was defeated by Sheik Y. Ramjan in Constituency No.5 Port Louis Maritime.
Through his connections, the first investors from Taiwan and Hong Kong came to Mauritius to set up textiles operations which helped to reduce unemployment in the country.
In honor of his contribution to the country, Sir Jean Moilin's portrait was printed on the 25-rupee banknotes in Mauritius in 1998.
In 2007, his children decided to transform the family's old residence in Rose-Hill into a museum and Memorial center.