FRENCH DAIRY EXECUTIVES ORDERED TO PAY OVER EURO 23 MILLION IN BUTTER ADULTERATION CASE
January 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has welcomed an order made by French magistrates against two dairy executives to repay more than Euro 23 million in EU subsidies claimed for pure butter, which was actually adulterated. Jean-Pierre Boisgontier and Guy Fléchard, of dairy company Fléchard de la Chapelle d'Andaine, were also respectively sentenced to suspended prison sentences of eight and five months and fined Euro 20,000 and Euro 37,500. Both men could appeal. Créteil magistrates court heard the butter was adulterated with vegetable matter and meat ...
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