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tblue37

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7. China executed 2 honchos it held responsible for the adulterated milk scandal that
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:07 PM
Mar 2016

led to baby deaths. However, the country's main concern was that other countries started banning food imports from China because political corruption meant that their products' safety could not be trusted. A couple of high profile executions were intended to act as "proof" that other countries could trust them to root out and punish such corruption. Several other individuals got long prison sentences (some even for life):

A number of criminal prosecutions were conducted by the Chinese government. Two people were executed, one given a suspended death penalty, three people receiving life imprisonment, two receiving 15-year jail terms, and seven local government officials, as well as the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), being fired or forced to resign.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal#Criminal_prosecutions

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