Monday, July 14, 2014

China indicts PI and his American wife for 'illegal' activities in GSK bribery probe

Two months after charging three China-based executives of GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) with bribery, that country is coming down hard on a British private investigator and his wife for their alleged roles in the widening scandal. British private investigator Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Yingzeng, who is an American, have been indicted for illegally collecting private information on Chinese citizens, according to the state's news agency, Xinhua.
Humphrey's consulting firm, ChinaWhys, was hired by GSK last year to investigate a former employee suspected of sending out emails related to an alleged $489 million bribery scheme. Last August, Humphrey and his wife were arrested, and they are scheduled to be tried in a closed procedure starting early next month.

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