Chinese asset manager Huarong halted trading of its Hong Kong-listed shares on Wednesday after its chairman was placed under investigation by the Chinese Communist party’s anti-corruption agency.
The trading halts for shares in Huarong Investment Stock Corporation and China Huarong Asset Management Co “pending the publication of an announcement which constitutes inside information” were announced in statements to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Wednesday morning.
The halts came after the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on Tuesday evening that it had placed Lei Xiaomin, chairman and party secretary of the state-controlled company, under investigation for “severe disciplinary violations” - a phrase that typically refers to corruption when deployed by party organs.