Underground pipeline reveals method of turning tens of thousands of tons of livestock oil into cooking oil for humans
An underground pipeline is installed to pump raw oil from animal feed and seafood to the cooking oil tank used to process food for restaurants, confectionery and even children's snacks.
Informing VietNamNet reporters this morning (June 25), the leader of Hung Yen Provincial Police confirmed that the unit had just dismantled a large-scale production line of counterfeit and poor-quality goods with signs of tax evasion related to cooking oil.
Ofood - a food brand of Nhat Minh Food Production and Import-Export Company Limited, is cooking oil for humans that has been consumed in a huge quantity in the market. The company smuggles this oil into collective kitchens, restaurants, and even villages that make confectionery and snacks for children...
However, the reality is that this is vegetable oil for animal feed, not cooking oil for human consumption.
To conceal their actions, the masterminds used an underground pipeline to pump raw animal feed oil into a tank containing cooking oil for human consumption. Initial findings showed that the company had sold tens of thousands of tons of substandard vegetable oil to consumers.
To convert animal feed oil into human oil, the group of leaders bought animal feed oil and declared the product to contain Vitamin A. However, the police clarified that this ingredient does not exist in Ofood cooking oil.
At the police station, the subjects confessed: The oil produced is mainly for industrial cooking, brought to restaurants, cooking, frying. Other food establishments buy it to bottle and sell or to produce chips, make salads...
In this counterfeit production chain, there is An Hung Phuoc Import Export Trading Company Limited, one of the leading enterprises in the country importing vegetable oil. Estimated revenue in the last 3 years of the companies is up to more than 8,200 billion VND.
In addition to the products used by consumers, Hung Yen Provincial Police also seized more than 1,000 tons of smuggled oil.
Hung Yen police clearly identified that the subjects had set up front companies, with the form of producing cooking oil for human consumption. Then, the subjects used the legal entity and name of this company to import cooking oil for livestock into food for human consumption.
These companies have been operating for many years, some for 14 years, with an estimated annual revenue of up to 4,500 billion VND.
Based on the above grounds, the Investigation Police Agency of Hung Yen Province Police has prosecuted 3 leading suspects to investigate the acts of producing and trading in counterfeit goods such as food, food additives and smuggling.
