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| China jails British investigator Humphrey linked to GSK | China jails British investigator Humphrey linked to GSK |
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| A British company investigator, Peter Humphrey, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for trafficking personal data in China. | A British company investigator, Peter Humphrey, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for trafficking personal data in China. |
| The Shanghai court also sentenced his American wife Yu Yingzeng to two years. | The Shanghai court also sentenced his American wife Yu Yingzeng to two years. |
| GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) China, which is being investigated for possible bribery, hired Mr Humphrey last year. | GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) China, which is being investigated for possible bribery, hired Mr Humphrey last year. |
| The pair were found guilty of illegally obtaining Chinese citizens' data and selling it to China-based multinational firms, including GSK China. | The pair were found guilty of illegally obtaining Chinese citizens' data and selling it to China-based multinational firms, including GSK China. |
| Both admitted buying background information - but said they did not realise it was illegal to do so. | |
| They have the right to appeal against their sentences within 10 days. | |
| A court official also announced that Humphrey would be deported, but gave no further details, Reuters news agency reports. | |
| The verdict did not make a link between Humphrey's investigations and the allegations against the pharmaceutical giant GSK. | |
| Those allegations first emerged in an email in January 2013 from an anonymous and self-styled whistleblower to the company. | |
| The email alleges that GSK's sales teams targeted influential doctors with expensive gifts and cash to win business. It was sent to GSK's London-based CEO Andrew Witty and made accusations against GSK China's general manager Mark Reilly. | |
| Later a sex tape featuring Mr Reilly and his girlfriend was also sent. | |
| The arrest of Humphrey and his wife came weeks after he delivered an investigation report to GSK. | |
| The multinational had asked his corporate investigations company, ChinaWhys, to find out who had sent the email and how the video had been filmed. | |
| GSK told Humphrey it suspected Vivian Shi, a former GSK executive reported to have close ties to senior Communist Party officials. She denies being the whistleblower. | |
| The BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai says this was a show trial staged by a Communist-controlled judiciary. Humphrey is collateral damage caught up in China's case against GSK, our correspondent adds. | |
| How case unfolded: |