Our press news: Purchasing industrial salt in Guangzhou, illegally producing and selling counterfeit edible iodized salt. This case involves 15 districts and counties of our city, with a staggering amount of 788.85 tons of fake salt.
Yesterday, this largest fake salt production and sales case ever discovered in our city since the founding of the People's Republic of China was publicly announced in the First Intermediate People's Court. The ringleader, Xu Shouhua, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined 400,000 yuan. Tan Zhengbing, who exclusively provided the raw materials for Xu, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 150,000 yuan. The remaining eight members of the gang were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 10 months to 9 years. Reporter Luo Xi.