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Four Rio Tinto employees arrested in China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-12 01:01

BEIJING：Four employees of the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. have been arrested on charges of trade secrets infringement and bribery, according to a statement of China's Supreme People's Procuratorate late Tuesday.

They included Stern Hu, general manager of the company's Shanghai office, who was also in charge of the iron ore business in China, the statement says.