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Fine for fraudulent apple exports

Author
Annette Lunn,
Publish Date
Wed, 28 Jan 2015, 7:00PM

Fine for fraudulent apple exports

Author
Annette Lunn,
Publish Date
Wed, 28 Jan 2015, 7:00PM

A Hawke's Bay packhouse has been fined $40,000 dollars for fraudulently exporting apples to Taiwan.

Matipou Orchard was sentenced in the Hastings District Court today, after pleading guilty to ten charges of fraudulently using a document.

The company lied on paperwork to say apples bound for Taiwan were picked from approved orchards.

Ministry of Primary Industries spokesman Steve Ham says annual apple exports to Taiwan are worth more than $30 million so they take this sort of offending very seriously.

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