GSK scam: China court pledges ‘open trial’

The Shanghai court that will try two foreign investigators linked to the bribery case of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in China said Thursday it will hold an open trial, following diplomatic and family protests. British national Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Yingzeng, a naturalised US citizen, were indicted for illegally obtaining private information on Chinese citizens, state media said earlier this week, citing prosecutors. GSK had hired Humphrey, founder of a Shanghai-based risk advisory firm, to investigate the origin of a sex tape of the former boss of its China division, which emerged just before Beijing launched a bribery probe into the British company, the Sunday Times newspaper has reported.