Wife of investigator released from jail
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CHINESE authorities have released the American wife and business partner of a British investigator linked to a corruption case involving pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, a family friend said yesterday.
British national Peter Humphrey was granted early release on Tuesday, seven months before his two-and-a-half-year jail term for illegally obtaining the personal information of Chinese citizens was due to end. His wife was released at the same time, the friend said.
The British Consulate in Shanghai said yesterday that China was preparing to deport Humphrey, but gave no time for when that might happen.
Humphrey’s wife Yu Yingzeng, a naturalized American citizen, had been serving a two-year term on a similar charge.
The two ran an investigative firm, ChinaWhys, which was hired by GSK to investigate a sex tape of the company’s China boss and other issues shortly before the British pharmaceutical company itself became the target of a government investigation into bribery allegations.
The family friend, who asked not to be identified, told reporters that the exact whereabouts of the couple was unknown although they were believed to be still in Shanghai.
Yu was originally due to be released next month.
A spokesman for the US Consulate in Shanghai declined to comment.
GSK was fined 3.0 billion yuan (US$490 million) by a Chinese court last September following a nearly yearlong bribery investigation.
The court ordered the firm’s former head of China operations, Mark Reilly, to be deported and sentenced four other former GSK executives to between two and four years in prison.
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