{"id":821678,"date":"2018-07-04T13:54:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=821678"},"modified":"2018-07-04T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T13:54:36","slug":"former-rio-tinto-exc-jailed-for-corruption-in-china-let-free-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=821678","title":{"rendered":"Former Rio Tinto exc. jailed for corruption in China let free"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Former Rio Tinto’s head of iron ore business in China, Stern Hu, has been released Wednesday after spending nearly nine years in prison in Shanghai, following a 2010 conviction<\/a> for corruption and industrial espionage.<\/p>\n

The Australian citizen and three of his Chinese colleagues were arrested in 2009 during contentious iron-ore contract talks between top Aussie miner and the steel industry in China.<\/p>\n

The following year, they were convicted of accepting bribes totalling about A$14 million and stealing trade secrets. Fired by Rio Tinto in the aftermath, Hu is expected to return to Australia this week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hu was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison, but his time was reduced for good behaviour by the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court and consequently released more than a year early.<\/p>\n

His trail strained relations between Australia and its biggest trading partner, China. Now his release also comes at a sensitive time as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government has just introduced new laws aimed at curbing perceived Chinese interfering in national affairs. Beijing has denied meddling and even accused Australia of having a \u201cCold War mentality\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rio Tinto has made efforts this year to strengthen ties with China, offering training to leaders of state-run companies and even forming a joint venture with Minmetals<\/a>, one of the country’s biggest mining companies, to explore for mineral deposits first in the Asian country and then the rest of the world .<\/p>\n

The company is also finalizing details with China’s government and others parties over the planned sale of its stake in the Simandou iron ore project<\/a> in Guinea to Aluminum Corp. of China, better known as Chinalco, for $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n

The post Former Rio Tinto exc. jailed for corruption in China let free<\/a> appeared first on MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From:: Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie Former Rio Tinto’s head of iron ore business in China, Stern Hu, has been released Wednesday after spending nearly nine years in prison in Shanghai, following a 2010 conviction for corruption and industrial espionage. The Australian citizen and three of his Chinese colleagues were arrested in 2009 during contentious iron-ore contract talks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infomine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}