A Vietnamese man has been charged with “destroying and damaging property” for allegedly putting human feces, rat poison, and other things into a local firm’s seafood products, which were exported to Japan this year.

Between May and June 2014, human feces and raticide were found in five of 887 seafood packages that Rich Beauty Vietnam, located in the northern province of Thai Binh, shipped to Japan. 

The scandal has caused the exporter to suffer massive economic losses, postpone production, and have its prestige damaged, the firm complained.

Suspect Tran Xuan Trinh, 35, fled from the company after the incident. He was arrested on September 17 while farming for a relative in Chu Pong Commune in Chu Se District of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

Trinh confessed to police that he was dissatisfied with the huge workload he had to do every day at the company. He added that he was required to work 13 to 14 hours a day and two Sundays per month.

For that reason, he came up with an idea of putting human feces, rat poison, knives, and screws into the company’s shipments to Japan with the intention of ruining its reputation.

He thought that if the firm’s prestige was tainted, it would have fewer orders, leading to him having more days off.

The man is now in police detention.

Trinh could be sentenced to 20 years or even life in jail if convicted under the Vietnamese Penal Code.

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