TAIPEI: A court has sentenced the head of a Taiwanese company to 20 years in jail for his role at the center of a “gutter oil” scandal that gripped the island’s food industry and brought down a minister.
Yeh Wen-hsiang, chairman of Chang Guann Co, was also fined Tw$50 million ($1.6 million) for his part in selling on 243 tons of tainted oil collected from cookers, fryers, and grease traps, as well as recycled grease from leather processing plants.
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