A senior Chinese customs official at a port embroiled in a metals financing scandal has died of “unnatural” causes, state media have reported.
Police are investigating the death of Qingdao Customs deputy commissioner Bian Peiquan, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, citing Qingdao Customs.
In late May, local authorities in the northeastern port of Qingdao began investigating claims that a Chinese company had pledged the same lots of metal to multiple banks in order to secure loans. The metal included copper; aluminum and alumina.
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