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Corruption crackdown reaches world's largest tin maker

Chinese prosecutors have accused the chairman of the world’s largest tin producer of accepting bribes in exchange for business deals, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing state media. A report in Yunnan Information Daily said Yunnan Tin (000960.SHE) chairman Lei Yi took bribes to arrange the sale of his company’s stake in a private college to China’s LEED International Education Group. The article said the education company was co-founded by Goldman Sachs Group (GS.NYSE), citing LEED’s website. Goldman Sachs wasn’t mentioned or accused of any wrongdoing in the article and it wasn’t clear whether it has a stake in LEED.

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