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HONG KONG/BEIJING, Sept 13 (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Friday imposed a six-month business suspension on PwC's auditing unit in mainland China over the auditing of Evergrande, the regulator said.
The ministry also imposed a fine of 116 million yuan ($16 million) on PwC Zhong Tian LLP, the registered accounting entity and the main onshore arm of PwC in China, according to a statement on the MOF website.
China's securities regulator said in a separate statement that it confiscated the unit's revenue involved in the Evergrande case totalling 27.7 million yuan and fined the unit 297 million yuan.
($1 = 7.0942 Chinese yuan renminbi)
(Reporting buy Beijing newsroom; Editing by Mark Potter) ((mailto:bernard.orr@thomsonreuters.com))
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