Anta Sports Products, the new owner of Amer Sports, has denied once again allegations of falsifying its accounts. The latest claim came from a U.S.-based short seller, Muddy Waters, which said that the Chinese company had fraudulently boosted its reported profit margins through the control it has on its distributors. The report led to a drop of more than 7 percent in Anta's share value, which has nonetheless increased by almost 37 percent so far this year. Two other short sellers based in Hong Kong and Texas, GMT Research and Blue Orca, had made similar accusations of improper accounting practices, and Anta denied those as well.

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