ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 22, 2010
SHANGHAI — Lawyers in Shanghai says an Australian executive and three Chinese officials with mining giant Rio Tinto have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes.
The lawyers said today that Stern Hu and the three Chinese nationals — Liu Caikui, Ge Minqiang and Wang Yong — pleaded guilty but they disputed the amounts they are alleged to have accepted.
Tao Wuping, the lawyer for Liu, said all four pleaded guilty. Calls to Hu’s lawyer, Duan Qihua, were not answered.
Australia’s consul-general in Shanghai, Tom Connor, told reporters that Hu “made some admissions regarding these bribery matters.”
Connor said Hu was accused of taking bribes of $146,000 and $790,000, but he did not give any details.
Also: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/world/asia/27riotinto.html?emc=eta1