Short seller Carson Block catapulted to fame almost a decade ago for exposing alleged frauds in publicly traded Chinese companies, like the well-known case of Sino-Forest Corp. Block's route to short selling was a circuitous one. While Block started out investigating alleged fraud in China, he has branched out to Europe, Canada and the U.S. in recent years.
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