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.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1621238/billionaire-chief-lard-firm-charged-fraud-over-taiwan-tainted-oil-scandal
Structure of the Lead：
WHO- the head of a lard supplier
WHEN-yesterday
WHAT- charged
WHY- deliberately selling adulterated cooking
oil
WHERE- Taiwan
HOW-not given
Keywords：
1. forgery：偽造品
2. custody：拘留
3. subsidiary：附屬的
4. contaminated：污染
