Ting Hsin food firm boss charged over tainted cooking oil
The head of a lard supplier
in Taiwan
The indictment of Wei Ying-chun,
one of four brothers who run the Ting Hsin International Group, was delivered
by the Taipei District Prosecutors Office. Charges include fraud and forgery.
Wei was already in
custody in Chunghua county in the centre of the island on a charge linked to a
cooking oil scandal implicating another subsidiary of the group.
It has been
accused of using oil meant for animal feed in its products.
Another subsidiary
of the firm, Wei Chuan Foods Corp, Taiwan's second-largest food manufacturer,
was found to have sold food products made with gutter oil, a potentially
harmful mixture of waste oil recycled from restaurant fryers and slaughterhouse
byproducts.
Bowing to public
pressure, Wei had resigned from his positions as chairman of three of the
group's subsidiaries.
Ting Hsin has said it will
shut down its oil manufacturing business in Taiwan
It will also
donate NT$3 billion (HK$765 million) to the government or government-designated
foundations to help restore the reputation of Taiwan
Critics described
the move as a token gesture aimed at propping up its business across the
strait.
Its oil
manufacturing operations in Taiwan
President Ma
Ying-jeou, who has declared the contaminated cooking oil scandal a national
security issue, said the food industry might lose NT$16 billion following a
series of food safety fiascos.
Lard supplier
Chang Guann was fined NT$50 million last month for selling a product containing
gutter oil as cooking oil. Several firms were also found last year to have
illegally added colouring agents to cooking oil, or blended olive oil with
cheaper products such as cottonseed oil and sold it as pure olive oil.
Source:http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1621238/billionaire-chief-lard-firm-charged-fraud-over-taiwan-tainted-oil-scandal
Structure of the Lead
Who- Wei
Ying-chun, who run the Ting Hsin International Group
Why- selling adulterated cooking oil
How- resigned
from his positions as chairman
Key Words
1. deliberately 故意
2. adulterate 摻雜
3. indictment 起訴書
4. fraud 詐欺
5. forgery 偽造罪
6. subsidiary 附加物
