China Charges Foreign Investigators Linked To GlaxoSmithKline Case
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- China is charging two Westerners working as private investigators in the country with illegally amassing information on Chinese citizens, Chinese state media said Monday. British national Peter Humphrey and his U.S. wife Yu Yingzeng, both of whom worked for GlaxoSmithKline PLC UK:GSK -0.15% GSK -1.27% to investigate a security breach at the company, were alleged of wrongdoing in charges filed with Shanghai Number One Intermediate People’s Court, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Reuters reported that the couple will go on trial Aug. 7. According to the Xinhua report, the couple illicitly paid for personal information in the course of running their business, which Glaxo paid to investigate a former employee suspected of sending anonymous emails that included allegations of bribery at the British pharmaceutical company.
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