BEIJING: Agency Against Corruption (AAC) revealed that Yang Jun-yuan, an official of the Taipei Customs of Customs Administration, and Chang En-shuo, an official of the Taoyuan City Department of Public Health, have allegedly been covering up for merchants smuggling tainted food products from Japan and Thailand into Taiwan.
The AAC was tipped off yesterday that illegal food products have been released onto the market with support from government officials. The AAC then discovered that three companies have imported more than 6,000 kilograms of unlicensed agricultural products into the nation, with a total market value of NT$10 million. They said that most products may have already been consumed.
The illegal products include seafood from Chiba Prefecture, Japan, from which the Taiwanese government has prohibited food imports due to the nuclear radiation in the area, as well as drug-tainted live crabs and asparagus from Thailand, according to the AAC.
Yang and Chang are suspected of leaking government information, shielding the smugglers, bribery, forgery, corruption, profiteering, making false customs declarations, avoiding drug tests, and switching unauthorized products ahead of inspections, according to the AAC.
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