Lin’s activity was discovered on March 29, 2020, when customs officers at the Port of Keelung flagged a container containing masks. The ship’s manifest said that 69,570 masks from China were in the container and customs officers reported the shipment upon seeing that the masks had “Made in Taiwan” on them. The court found Lin guilty of defrauding the public, saying that his company was one of many recruited to manufacture medical-grade masks at the peak of the mask-rationing program, which ended late last year. The ruling, which can be appealed, came as a similar but separate case involving Lin and Chinese-made masks is being tried. In the ongoing trial, Lin is charged with fraud for allegedly disguising a batch of non-medical grade Chinese masks to make them look like they were made by his company.

Source: Taipei Times January 22, 2022 03:59 UTC