Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings) Ltd., a company controlled by Chinese-Dutch businessman Yang Bin, appointed a new chairman and acting chief executive following Yang's arrest by Chinese police.
The company named Chief Operating Officer Jacobus Lekkerkerk as executive director and chairman, and Yang Bin as non-executive director and non-executive chairman," Euro-Asia said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange. Rex Chiu, Euro-Asia's executive director of corporate development, was appointed acting chief executive officer.
(eastday.com October 20, 2002)