Mr Gu, the Greencool fridge magnate, stuck in prison

摘要

Gu ghujun, the former chairman of Chinese manufacturer Guangdong Kelon Electrical Holdings, and the man responsible for introducing Greencool refrigerants to the UK, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined US$940,000. In what has been dubbed "the biggest corruption case since the founding of communist China", Mr Gu was found guilty of falsely registering the capital of Greencool Enterprise Development Company, which he set up in 2001; publishing falsified financial reports for the listed Kelon; and embezzling with others $43.5m from Kelon and two other companies.