6 held in Spain court probe into China's ICBC bank in Madrid
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has ruled that six executives of China's state-owned ICBC bank in Madrid should be detained pending a judicial probe into suspected money laundering and tax fraud, a court statement said Saturday.
The Chinese embassy in Madrid said in a statement that the Chinese government "requires Chinese companies to maintain a strict compliance of the law."
China's Deputy Foreign Minister Liu Xing spoke Friday with Spain's embassy official Jose Luis Garcia Galan to convey his government's hopes that the legal rights of Chinese businesses and personnel in Spain would be guaranteed.