China’s Hanlong Mining has stripped three Sydney-based executives of their responsibilities after Australia’s securities regulator launched an investigation into suspected insider trading involving the trio.
The potentially embarrassing legal case threatens to derail Hanlong’s plans to expand further into Australia’s resources sector and could strain relations between Canberra and Beijing.
Relations between the countries were strained over the arrest in 2009 and subsequent jailing in Shanghai of four former Rio Tinto executives, including Stern Hu, an Australian citizen, for bribery and theft of commercial secrets.
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