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Sino-Forest: The Chinese Timber Company That Didn't Own Its Trees
Season 1
Episode 62
Published 3 days, 23 hours ago
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Imagine looking at a company and thinking, 'At least you can count the trees.' But what if those forests aren’t there at all—and the truth is far more elusive than the numbers suggest?In the early days of China’s economic boom, timber sounded safe. Solid. Forests were supposed to be tangible—you could walk through them, measure their growth, even photograph the evidence. Sino-Forest Corporation promised all of that and more. It emerged in a world hungry for Chinese growth and Western profit, and it found its place on the Toronto Stock Exchange, where the distance between Canadian boardrooms and remote Chinese forests made questions feel optional. The story was simple: own timber, sell wood, profit from China’s unstoppable rise. But in that simplicity was a shadow.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 32 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/sino-forest-corporation
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