Rio Tinto senior manager Stern Hu is seen in this undated welfare design performed on Jul 15, 2009.
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Related News Rio China hearing suspect says treated with colour with colour fairly-lawyer8:05am EDTVerdict on China Rio hearing on Monday, Australia saysThu, March twenty-five 2010UPDATE 2-Verdict on China Rio hearing on Monday, Australia saysThu, March twenty-five 2010Rio hearing ends, result could take a little timeWed, March twenty-four 2010UPDATE 7-Rio hearing ends, result could take a little timeWed, March twenty-four 2010BEIJING (Reuters) - Stern Hu, the Australian adult and Rio Tinto senior manager on hearing in China this week on charges of temptation and hidden blurb secrets, pronounced he has been treated with colour with colour fairly, his counsel told Reuters on Friday.
Hu and 3 Chinese colleagues await Monday"s result in Shanghai in a box that stretched Sino-Australian family and disturbed unfamiliar investors endangered about next to diagnosis in Chinese courts tranquil by the Communist Party.
The box is additionally closely followed by the steel industry since Rio Tinto is the world"s second-largest mining organisation and one of the tip 3 tellurian miners of iron ore.
"Stern himself categorically and regularly reliable to us that he has been sincerely treated; my co-worker ... and I do share his opinion," counsel Jin Chunqing, of Fangben Law Office in Shanghai, told Reuters in an email.
Jin gave no alternative details.
All 4 pleaded guilty to the temptation assign but contested the volume of kickbacks purported by prosecutors, lawyers said.
Only one defendant, Liu Caikui, pleaded guilty to infringing blurb secrets, lawyers said. Liu was charged with the slightest volume of purported kickbacks [ID:nSGE62N0EO].
"Due to the complexity of the assign of infringing on blurb operation secrets, it is tough to envision the last result for the time being," Jin said.
The 3 were incarcerated in July, at the tallness of moving annual negotiations over iron ore prices, and rigourously arrested in August.
Because Hu is an Australian citizen, Australian diplomats were authorised to comply the temptation apportionment of the trial. However, China sealed the apportionment traffic with the blurb secrets charges, a preference Australia protested against.
Foreign reporters have been barred from the courtroom and Chinese media coverage has been limited.
(Writing by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Paul Tait)
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