An expatriate corporate investigator has been sentenced to two and a half years in a Chinese jail after being found guilty of stealing and selling personal information for profit, Chinese state media has reported. His wife and business partner was also found guilty of the same charge and was handed a two-year prison sentence.
Briton Peter Humphrey, who has been in detention since July 2013, appeared in a Shanghai court on Friday at the same time as his wife and business partner Yu Yingzeng. Yu is a Chinese-born U.S. citizen.
According to a court statement quoted by official news agency Xinhua, the pair confessed to obtaining private information about Chinese citizens by “illegal means.”
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Katie Hunt, CNN via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1kx5ekg
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