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6 sentenced for plot to defame business rival
By Zhang Xuanchen |
March 16, 2011, Wednesday
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A Mengniu Dairy Group project manager, his assistant and four employees of a public relations company pleaded guilty of fabricating rumor about a competitor of Mengniu and received jail terms from three months to one year.
An Yong, 33, Mengniu's project manager for children's milk, was sentenced to 10 months in prison with a one-year reprieve and was fined 20,000 yuan (US$ 3043.96) for slandering Yili Industrial Group, a court in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said on Monday.
Both Mengniu and Yili are leading dairy producers in China and are based in Inner Mongolia.
Xiao Xuemei, 36, deputy manager of Beijing Bosse Public Relations which works for Mengniu, was sentenced to one year in prison with a two-year reprieve and was fined 30,000 yuan, Xinhua reported yesterday.
An's assistant and other three Mosse employees received lesser sentences from three to five months in jail and were fined 10,000 yuan each, the report said.
The court said An directed other offenders to fabricate 491 press releases and online posts to accuse a brand of Yili milk of containing deep-sea fish oil, an ingredient believed to cause precocious puberty among children last summer.
The posts spread quickly with the help of online post promoters they hired, attracting more than 2.6 million clicks on several popular websites. Mengniu later made a public apology for the false allegation against its competitor, but said the scandal was An's personal act.
An Yong, 33, Mengniu's project manager for children's milk, was sentenced to 10 months in prison with a one-year reprieve and was fined 20,000 yuan (US$ 3043.96) for slandering Yili Industrial Group, a court in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said on Monday.
Both Mengniu and Yili are leading dairy producers in China and are based in Inner Mongolia.
Xiao Xuemei, 36, deputy manager of Beijing Bosse Public Relations which works for Mengniu, was sentenced to one year in prison with a two-year reprieve and was fined 30,000 yuan, Xinhua reported yesterday.
An's assistant and other three Mosse employees received lesser sentences from three to five months in jail and were fined 10,000 yuan each, the report said.
The court said An directed other offenders to fabricate 491 press releases and online posts to accuse a brand of Yili milk of containing deep-sea fish oil, an ingredient believed to cause precocious puberty among children last summer.
The posts spread quickly with the help of online post promoters they hired, attracting more than 2.6 million clicks on several popular websites. Mengniu later made a public apology for the false allegation against its competitor, but said the scandal was An's personal act.
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