(Washington / Beijing Comprehensive News) Mintz Group, a US due diligence company, said on Thursday (March 23) that its Beijing office was searched by the Chinese government, and five Chinese employees have been detainedEssence
Comprehensive Reuters, Agence France -Presse, and Wall Street Journal reported that Mei Si Woman said in an email statement that they confirmed that Chinese officials have detained the company's Beijing Office of the Beijing Officebusiness.
The company is preparing to cooperate with the official to solve misunderstandings that may lead to these events.The company did not receive any official legal notice on the case, and also requested the official release of employees.
Anonymous sources said the company's local legal consultant revealed that the assault search was conducted on the afternoon of March 20, and employees were isolated somewhere outside Beijing.
executive: a Singaporean employee was banned from China in January
In addition, a Single executive of Mei Si said that a Singaporean employee at the Beijing Office was banned from leaving China for no reason, but was not arrested and mentioned.
According to the information of the official website, Mei Si is mainly engaged in factual collection, background and internal investigation business, including fraud, corruption, and improper behavior of workplace.The company's headquarters is in New York, and there are offices worldwide in the world, including the only mainland office in Beijing.
Randal Phillips, the person in charge of the company in Asia, has served in the Central Intelligence Agency for 28 years. Before leaving, he was the chief representative of the bureau in China.
Beijing Saturday (March 25) will be held three days since China Development High -level Forum. More than a hundred overseas representatives will be invited to participate, including multinational corporate executives and international organization representatives.
An American businessman said that the Mesic and Wise incident issued a "significant signal", that is, the Chinese government hopes to get foreign funds and technology, but will not accept credible American companies to perform their due diligence on Chinese partners or business environmentinvestigation.
Western due diligence companies have also had disputes with Chinese officials before.British private detective Peter Humphrey and his American wife Yu Ying were arrested in Shanghai while working in the British pharmaceutical giant Gralan Sesos in 2013. The two were released and drove away from China until 2015.
