Chang Guann chair gets 20 years for role in Taiwan cooking oil scandal

A Taiwan court has sentenced Yeh Wen-hsiang, chairman of foodstuffs company Chang Guann, to 20 years in prison for his role in the sale for consumption of 243 tons of used cooking oil collected from restaurants and leather processing plants, Agence France-Presse reported. Yeh was also fined NT$50 million (US$1.589 million) by the court. More than a thousand restaurants, bakeries and food plants in Taiwan had used the tainted oil, discovery of which led to hundreds of tons of goods being pulled from shelves in Taiwan and Hong Kong and prompted the resignation of the former’s health minister in October.