A Salt Lake City-based accounting firm failed to properly audit a Chinese poultry company accused of swindling its investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday.

The agency claims that Child, Van Wagoner & Bradshaw PLLC and two of its partners, Russell Anderson and Marty Van Wagoner, were lax in their audit of Yuhe International Inc., a Chinese provider of broiler chickens, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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