FRAUD INVESTIGATOR FACES TRIAL AS CHINA LIMITS CORPORATE INFORMATION
July 4th, 2014
Many eyes will be on a court room in Shanghai on July 29 when a Chinese judge will decide the fate of one of the most prominent investigators of fraud in China. The trial of Peter Humphreys and his wife Yu Yingzheng follows a year’s imprisonment for the two, who founded ChinaWhys, a Shanghai and Hong Kong-based firm that performed due diligence, credit checks (as well as investigations of staff for possible kickbacks or embezzlement) for western corporations in China. One of these clients, however, was British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline Plc - itself ...
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