According to Taiwan's "United News Network", during the epidemic prevention period, the head of a mask factory in Taoyuan City lied that he had not produced any masks in order to avoid the requisition of masks by the Taiwan authorities' health and welfare department. However, since February, he secretly produced and sold it in private, with an initial estimate of more than 20 million yuan (NT$, the same below), but considering that there is no need to detain, he ordered him to pay 450,000 yuan in security.
According to reports, the Taoyuan District Procuratorate Office recently launched a search and found out that the company is a factory approved by the Taiwan competent authority to manufacture masks. The health and welfare department of the Taiwan authorities has requisitioned general medical masks (2.5 yuan per tablet) and surgical masks (3 yuan per tablet) from the company on February 13. In order to avoid expropriation, the head of the factory pretended that these two types of masks have not been produced at present.
The prosecutor recently directed the Coast Patrol Investigation and Investigation Team, Taichung team, as well as Taichung and Taoyuan police in the company's warehouses to search, and more than 380,000 masks and 111 boxes of medical mask electrostatic filter materials were deducted on the spot. After investigation by the prosecutor and police, the person in charge pointed out that during the epidemic prevention period, the demand for masks increased significantly. He started to manufacture masks privately from mid-to-late February and sold them to customers in large quantities at a price of 14 yuan per tablet. During the period, the illegal income exceeded 20 million yuan.
According to reports, the prosecutor ordered the person in charge to pay 450,000 yuan in insurance for the crime of requisition of epidemic prevention materials for the price gouging, the special regulations on the prevention and control of severe special infectious pneumonia and the relief and revitalization of epidemic prevention materials, and the announcement of the price gouging of epidemic prevention materials.
Source: China Taiwan Network
