The China Hustle Movie Script

Their stock was pumping.

Press releases were coming out about deals they were making with Nestl and whoever else.

Dan calculated that in order to fulfil these contracts, dozens of trucks would have to be loading and unloading goods all day.

So even though monitoring private companies is illegal in China, his team risked lengthy jail terms to set up surveillance cameras outside the factory gates.

We filmed them for 344 days.

Tapes showed us of very little activity going, very few employees coming in and out.

Dan figured that if the company was doing what it said it was, it would have hundreds of employees and dozens of drivers.

So what we do is, we have our investigator pose as a tea salesman.

So he shows up, and he's got a suitcase full of tea samples, says he's a tea salesman and he wants to give free tea samples for everybody.

And 40 regular staff members in total, right?

(in Mandarin) Yes, that's right.

40 regular staff members.

Then can you please write down the number here?

Ok, I'll write down 40 people.

So tell me how many employees you have here so I can give you enough samples.

We get that answer.

How many truck drivers? Only one?

(in Mandarin) Yes.

What did it mean that they only had one truck driver?

It meant that their volume was vastly less than they had claimed.

In the first half of this year, Ah, Yongye grew both revenues and net income by about 100 percent.

Calling out China Green Agriculture meant that Dan was also questioning the integrity of some of the guys he'd ridden the China-stock wave up with.

guys like Crocker Coulson, a stock promoter who'd pushed this stock and dozens like it.

What about, um, China Green Agriculture?

So that's another fertilizer story that we were... Again, this kind of goes back a fair ways for me.