BHP Billiton Ltd. said Wednesday it had been questioned over its sponsorship of the 2008 Beijing Olympics as part of a U.S.-led investigation into possible violations of anti-corruption laws.
“We have been asked about BHP Billiton’s sponsorship of the 2008 Beijing Olympics,” the company said in an emailed statement. “We believe our Olympics activities complied with all applicable law.”
The statement followed a report in an Australian newspaper Wednesday that said the world’s biggest mining company was being investigated by the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice and Australian Federal Police.
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Rhiannon Hoyle, Wall Street Journal via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/yQ9SJIFKiLY/
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