Raids net tons of pork from ill animals
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MORE than 110 people suspected of selling pork products made from diseased pigs have been apprehended by police after a yearlong investigation.
In raids on nearly 30 underground workshops, police seized more than 1,000 tons of tainted pork and 48 tons of swill oil with an estimated value in excess of 100 million yuan (US$16.13 million), the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.
Producers obtained the pigs by bribing government livestock insurance agents, several of whom are being prosecuted, the ministry said.
The agents informed the syndicates when insurance claims were filed, allowing them to swoop in and buy pigs as soon as the deaths had been verified, it said.
The ministry did not give a precise figure for arrests, but said 75 suspects had already been sent for prosecution.
They had been buying dead or diseased pigs from farmers and processing them into bacon, sausages and cooking oil since 2008, police said.
The network emerged after police in central China’s Hunan Province received a tip-off at the end of 2013 about a group buying pigs which should have been destroyed.
Police then managed to identify a cross-provincial network formed by separate groups based in 11 provinces.
After the links with other groups emerged, police in 10 other provinces joined the investigation.
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