A large Singapore-based fund has further increased its stake in Sino-Forest Corporation and it now owns 18 per cent of the embattled Chinese forestry company's outstanding shares.
The Mandolin Fund, run by New Zealand-born billionaire Richard Chandler, disclosed on Friday that it bought another 2.7 million Sino-Forest shares on Aug. 4.
The fund has been gradually boosting its stake in the forestplantation operator that has been accused of fraud by short-seller Carson Block and his firm Muddy Waters, sending its shares spiralling downward. Mandolin's Sino-Forest investment over the last two months has helped drive some recovery in the company's shares, which trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and had plunged as low as $1.29 in mid June.
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