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Article

24 Jul 2013

Author:
Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg

Sinopec Sued by Hong Kong Businessman for Imprisonment

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. was sued for $5.17 billion by a Hong Kong businessman…Tiangang Sun, the former chairman of GeoMaxima Energy Holdings Ltd., accused Sinopec, as China Petroleum is more commonly known, of violations of the Alien Tort Claims Act, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, among other allegations, in a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles. Sun said in the complaint that officials of Sinopec and the Chinese government had him arrested in 2005 after he sued the oil company in Beijing for breaching a contract with his company…Representatives of Sinopec with the Brunswick Group in Hong Kong didn’t immediately respond to a telephone call and an e-mailed message seeking comment on the allegations.