Investigators Face Trial Amid GSK Sex Tape Revelations

South China Morning Post’s Toh Han Shih reports that British/Chinese-American corporate investigator couple Peter Humphrey and Yu Yingzheng, who werearrested last summer during a bribery investigation into their clients GlaxoSmithKline, will stand trial in Shanghai on July 29th.Chinese prosecutors originally wanted to charge Humphrey and Yu with several offences, including some relating to illegal business operations.But they decided to drop all of them except for one of illegally buying information, a source close to the family said.Although each faced only one charge, they risked being jailed if found guilty, the source added.Prosecutors had made Humphrey and Yu’s lawyers sign a non-disclosure agreement preventing them from revealing certain information to the couple, the source said. [Source]News of the trial follows reports about a covert sex tape of GSK’s top China executive, which the pair had been hired to investigate. From Laurie Burkitt at The Wall Street Journal:The British drug maker regarded the video—apparently shot without the executive’s knowledge—as a breach of security, the person said.The executive in the video, Mark Reilly, directed the company to hire a Shanghai-based private investigation firm run by a British national and his Chinese-born wife to investigate the breach, the person said.[…] Until this weekend’s disclosure about the video, it wasn’t clear whether ChinaWhys had been working for Glaxo when its owners were seized b...
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