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European fashion retailers H&M and C&A are investigating allegations that prison laborers in China were used to make packaging both companies use. Minnesota-based technology company 3M was also named in the report, and is also conducting an investigation into the allegations.
In a Financial Times article last week, Peter Humphrey, a British corporate investigator and journalist, alleged that during the 23 months he spent in a Chinese jail beginning in 2014 for allegedly obtaining private records of Chinese citizens and selling the information he gathered to clients, including drug maker GlaxoSmithKline Plc, he saw prisoners making products for H&M, C&A and 3M.
“The prison was a business, doing manufacturing jobs for companies,”...