Präsident einer japanischen Restaurantkette verhaftet, weil er chinesischen Aal fälschlicherweise als „Herkunft aus der Präfektur Aichi“ bezeichnet hat

Assembled in Aichi, they need to use the right wording.

He wanted to catch it in Aichi, but it slipped through his fingers. It swam away all the way to China, where he finally caught it.

Japanese Unagi purchased in Australian supermarkets is ridiculously expensive, the Chinese equivalent is just as good and a fraction of the price

>This companypurchased 18.5 tons of [eels](https://news.livedoor.com/topics/keyword/32645/) last year, but almost all of them were from [China , with domestically produced](https://news.livedoor.com/topics/keyword/7074/)[eels](https://news.livedoor.com/topics/keyword/32645/) accounting for less than 2%.

>Doidenies the allegations, telling police, „I don’t think I was [misrepresenting the origin of the products .“](https://news.livedoor.com/topics/keyword/18301/)

Less than 2%? Yeah that’s a complete misrepresentation.

As to what kind of punishment he might be facing, mislabeling things like this can have a punishment of up to 5 years of hard labor.

In the past you got two companies called, Uohide and Shinko Gyorui that basically did the same thing, except they werent restaurant but they bought Chinese eels and passed it also off as Aichi eels. The criminal charges were for 15 tons of mislabeled eels, bribery and false mislabeling of use-by-dates

The corporate leaders got around 2.5 year prison sentences and fines to themselves and to their companies.

Given that the tonnage is within the same ballpark, I think the guy could be looking around the same amount of years of prison sentence given the comparable. Though ultimately the courts would be looking at how much he profited from his mislabeling, not the amount of eels actually mislabeled.