China Issues Arrest Warrant for Rio Tinto’s Employees on Bribery and Stealing Commercial Secrets

On August 12, 2009, China issued an arrest warrant for Australian mining executive Stern Hu and three other staff members in the Shanghai office for “obtaining commercial secrets from Chinese steel mills through improper means” and “commercial bribery”. China had alleged the detained four men committed the more serious crime of espionage when they were first detained without charges...(more)