Sinopec Sued by Hong Kong Businessman for Imprisonment
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China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. was sued for $5.17 billion by a Hong Kong businessman who said company executives were involved in a plot that had him imprisoned for five years on trumped-up charges.
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.