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農水省、日ハムの刑事告発検討
農林水産省は14日、日本ハムグループの牛肉偽装疑惑に関して、大社啓二社長を呼び、日ハムと子会社の牛肉部門の営業を自粛するよう行政指導した。
Farm ministry to file complaints against Nippon Ham unit executives
The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said Aug. 14 that it will file criminal complaints with police against three managers of Nippon Food Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., on suspicion of defrauding the government through a beef buyback program.
The ministry said it will take similar action against a Nippon Meat — better known as Nippon Ham — senior managing director for suspected destruction of related evidence.
At the center of the case is 1.3 tons of imported beef that Nippon Food passed off as domestic beef and sold to the Japan Ham & Sausage Processors Cooperative Association under the buyback program
The program was intended to bail out the domestic cattle industry battered by the outbreak of mad cow disease in Japan last September.
Nippon Ham President Hiroji Okoso was summoned by the ministry for questioning during which ministry officials asked the subsidiary, Nippon Food Inc., to suspend its beef-related business activities and Nippon Ham to suspend supplies of beef to the subsidiary.
Okoso told reporters, "I feel responsible, but I have no intention of resigning under the circumstances."
"We will promptly take the requested action," Okoso said, adding the company will announce measures to prevent a recurrence of the fraud and details of in-house punishment shortly.
He also said his company has suspended all capital spending after the scandal had caused sales to drop more than 40 percent.
Shukan ST: Aug. 23, 2002
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- Farm ministry
- 農水省
- file criminal complaints with police against 〜
- 〜を告発する
- unit
- グループ
- executives
- 幹部
- file criminal complaints with police
- 刑事告発する
- wholly owned subsidiary
- 100%子会社
- Nippon Food Inc.
- 日本ハム
- on suspicion of 〜
- 〜の容疑で
- defrauding
- だます
- beef buyback program
- (狂牛病対策の)国産牛肉買い取り事業
- destruction of related evidence
- 関係する証拠の隠滅
- At the center of the case is 〜
- 事件の中心となっているのは〜
- passed off as 〜
- 〜と偽った
- Japan Ham & Sausage Processors Cooperative Association
- 日本ハム・ソーセージ工業協同組合
- bail out
- 救済する
- battered by 〜
- 〜で被害を受けた
- outbreak of mad cow disease
- 狂牛病の発生
- was summoned by 〜
- 〜に呼び出された
- suspend
- 自粛する
- have no intention of resigning
- 辞任するつもりはない
- promptly
- すぐに
- measures
- 対策
- prevent a recurrence of 〜
- 〜の再発を防ぐ
- fraud
- ごまかし
- in-house punishment
- 社内(関係者)の処分
- shortly
- すぐに
- capital spending
- 設備投資