Sino-Forest: The Chinese Timber Company That Didn't Own Its Trees

Podcast: The Fraud Archive Dialogues · The Archive Network

Opublikowano: 2026-10-04

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...