Arrests and fines in fallout from China’s cooking oil scandal
35.91 tonnes of cooking oil, of which 11 kilograms were used to produce animal feed, were on the first vehicle. The remainder had been sealed to prevent more use and had not yet been sold.
The second vehicle was carrying 31.86 kilograms, of which 29.38 kilograms had been packaged and sold, largely to the city of Ordos in the northern autonomous region of Interior Mongolia. 7.78 tons of which had already been used but not yet sold. It had since been recalled and sealed.
Three more people were imprisoned for allegedly issuing a fake ticket for a truck’s cleaning.
Additionally, the team reported that a third company, the registered owner of one of the tankers, was fined nearly 2 million yuan ( US$ 281,000 ), while two other transportation companies received the removal of their operating licenses and more than 1.5 million yuan ( US$ 210, 000 ). Authorities were urged to keep an eye on the three businesses.
The Sinograin company was fined 2.86 million rmb, while Hopefull was fined 2.51 million yuan.
One organization that bought the crude carried in the ships was fined 300, 000 renminbi and another was fined 260, 000 yuan.
Anti-corruption organizations may be involved in additional investigations, according to the research team, and local authorities were held accountable.
The food health staff said that, apart from the two vehicles mentioned in media reports, they “did not get any related problems” in their global exploration.
The group vowed “zero compassion” for such situations and that it would continue to supervise the transportation of cooking oil.
A remark in People’s Daily, a Communist Party spokesperson, stated that the research reflected Beijing’s “highly responsible approach to meal safety and its high-pressure position of continuing to bite down on legal and illegal acts involving food immediately after the findings were released on Sunday.
Many cooking oil companies announced last month that they had conducted an internal investigation and had not encountered any issues with their products or transportation.
The transportation of cooking fuel has been covered in Chinese internet for a number of years. In 2005 and 2015, press reports highlighted related procedures.
Some blogs discovered last month that a Chinese online tool that tracks vehicle movements might reveal whether or not trucks are being used to carry both cooking oil and fuel.
The app, which is mainly for shipping companies, stopped sharing info after a wave in visitors.
This content was first published on SCMP.
