Ten people of Husi's parent OSI and its Husi units in Shanghai and north China's Hebei Province involved in the previous rotten meat scandal were sentenced to up to three years for producing and selling inferior goods, the Jiading District People's Court heard this afternoon.
The chief culprit, an Australian Yang Liqun, general manager of the processing department at Husi's parent OSI Group China, was given the three-year jail term, when the other nine were sentenced to one year and seven months to two years and eight months.
Yang's sentence also came with a deportation and a fine of 100,000 yuan. The fine for the others ranges from 30,000 to 80,000 yuan. Four of the other nine got a probation.
The two Husi units in Shanghai and Hebei Province were also ordered to pay a fine of 1.2 million yuan each.
Husi's food processing plant in Jiading District was raided by officials from the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration following the broadcast in July, 2014, of a television program that accused it of using out-of-date and substandard meat.
The company, which supplies McDonald's and Yum Brands — parent of KFC, Carl's Jr and Burger King — was found to have altered production dates on more than 4,000 cases of smoked beef patties.
