Taiwan police crackdown on illegal slaughterhouse
The China Post/ANN | Sat Dec 22 2012
Six suspects were arrested for allegedly selling pork from dead and sick swine.
Taipei, December 22, 2012
Police have cracked down on an illegal slaughterhouse in Pingtung, arresting six suspects for allegedly selling pork from dead and sick swine, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said yesterday.
Tools and 210 kilograms of pork were seized during a raid of the slaughterhouse located inside one of the suspects' pig farms on Wednesday, the CIB said, and more meat was uncovered in another raid of a refrigerating facility.
The CIB estimates that the operation had butchered several hundred unhealthy or dead pigs in the last six months, reaping several million New Taiwan dollars by selling the pork to vendors in the Tainan area.
The suspects collected sick and dead swine from others' pig farmers as well as their own, the CIB said.
The raids - a joint operation by the CIB's field office in Southern Taiwan, environmental police and Pingtung police - concluded a four-month investigation following a tip-off about the allegedly illegal slaughterhouse, the CIB said.
