Wei Ying-chun returns to prison for cooking oil

FACING TIME: The High Court combined Wei’s eight separate rulings to sentence him to four years and eight months for involvement in the 2014 cooking oil scandal

Taipei Times
Date: Jan 09, 2020
By: Huang Chieh and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

Former Ting Hsin International Group (頂新集團) chairman Wei Ying-chun (魏應充) was yesterday

taken to Taipei Prison to resume serving a combined prison term he had been given over a tainted cooking oil scandal that erupted in 2014.

While declining to be interviewed by reporters outside the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office, Wei recited a passage he had written to express his feelings: “Treat others with sincerity; be righteous and moral in your dealings; learn and grow from tribulations; treasure kindness and love and may all in Taiwan prosper.”

Wei was charged by the Changhua District Prosecutors’ Office in October 2014 for breaching the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (食品安全衛生管理法) after investigators found the company had imported animal feed-grade material from Vietnamese oil manufacturer Dai Hanh Phuc Co, and described it in its customs declaration as fit for human consumption.

The Supreme Court upheld a second appellate court ruling on Nov. 6 last year, which ruled that Wei was guilty of breaching the act and other offenses regarding the 2014 case, and sentenced Wei to five years and nine months in prison.    [FULL  STORY]