双语时事：韩飞龙案令人关注中国尽职调查行业

2014-08-14 18:26:24来源：可可英语

　　When Humphrey was detained, companies were worried about the implications for riskanalysis. But several people said investigators and lawyers became less concerned when itappeared his case was related to an investigation into GlaxoSmithKline, which had hired him toinvestigate a whistleblower who had sparked a widespread government probe into the UKpharmaceutical company.

　　韩飞龙被拘留后，企业纷纷担心风险分析所受的影响。但有几个人表示，调查员和律师的担忧后来减轻了，因为他的案件似乎与针对葛兰素史克(GSK)的调查有关，该公司聘用他调查一个举报者，该举报者引发政府对这家英国制药企业展开广泛调查。

　　One investigator with significant China experience said part of the problem was that the offenceHumphrey was convicted of occupies a grey zone in China, where a number of privacy andsecurity laws contain a clause that essentially says “what we think is sensitive is sensitive”.

　　一名具有大量中国经验的调查员表示，问题的一部分在于韩飞龙被判犯有的罪行在中国是一个灰色地带;中国的一些隐私和安全法律包含了这样的条文，其实质内容就是“我们认为什么敏感就什么敏感”。

　　While Humphrey’s case cast a spotlight on the due diligence industry in China, experts say ithad already become more difficult to conduct certain kinds of investigations. Steve Vickers, acorporate risk expert, said China started to tighten rules on obtaining information after aseries of reports by Muddy Waters, a research firm attached to a short seller, which raisedquestions about several Chinese companies, including Sino Forest.

　　尽管韩飞龙的案件令人关注中国的尽职调查行业，但专家们表示，进行某些类型调查的难度本来就已加大。企业风险专家韦启贤(Steve Vickers)表示，与一个卖空者有联系的研究公司浑水(Muddy Waters)发表一系列报告、令人对嘉汉林业(Sino Forest)等多家中国企业产生疑问之后，中国开始收紧获取信息的规则。

　　While China tightened its privacy laws in 2009, three years later investigators and researcherswere still able to obtain copies of people’s ID cards by paying lawyers who could access recordsat State Administration of Industry and Commerce. But after Bloomberg and the New YorkTimes ran stories about the wealth of the families of Chinese leaders that relied on SAIC filingsin 2012, China clamped down further.

　　尽管中国在2009年收紧了隐私法律，但三年后，调查员和研究人员仍可付费请能够查看国家工商行政管理总局记录的律师，来获取有关人士身份证的复印件。但在彭博社(Bloomberg)和《纽约时报》(New York Times)在2012年以工商部门存档的申报资料为依据，报道中国领导人亲属的财富之后，中国进一步收紧了管控。

　　While several factors along with the Humphrey case have made due diligence a tougherbusiness, the investigator with extensive China experience said there were other problems inthe industry. For example, some banks allow bankers to communicate with outside riskadvisers without input from internal compliance and legal teams.

　　在几个因素加上韩飞龙案使得尽职调查更难进行的同时，上述具有丰富中国经验的调查员表示，业内还存在其他问题。比如，一些银行允许银行家在没有内部合规和法务团队参与的情况下与外部风险顾问沟通。

　　He said another problem was that some due diligence firms used so-called “expert networks”and there was a danger the buyer of information from these would have no idea where itoriginated. “The level of due diligence [in China] is a really mixed bag. I would still say ‘investorbeware,’” he said.

　　他说，另一个问题是一些尽职调查公司使用所谓的“专家网络”，这里面存在的一个危险是，这些信息的买家根本不知道信息的来源。“(在华)尽职调查的水平参差不齐。我还是要说‘投资者要当心，’”他表示。

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