フラン 持つ／拘留するs 裁判，公判 over horse meat 設立する in frozen lasagna
PARIS (AP) - Six years after the "Horsegate" スキャンダル broke, four people went on 裁判，公判 in Paris on Monday over an (a)手の込んだ／(v)詳述する 申し立てられた／疑わしい 計画／陰謀 that fed 消費者s across Europe frozen foods 含む／封じ込めるing cheap horse meat fraudulently labeled as pricier beef.
The 被告s at the 裁判，公判, which is 推定する／予想するd to last three weeks, 含むd two former (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs of French company Spanghero, （刑事）被告 of さまざまな 詐欺 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s, and two Dutch meat 仲買人s.
The French (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs - former Spanghero director Jacques Poujol and an ex-工場／植物 director Patrice Monguillon - are （刑事）被告 of selling more than 538 トンs of horse meat mislabeled as beef to Tavola, a 子会社 of Comigel, a French company whose frozen meals were sold to companies across Europe.
They are also （刑事）被告 of lying about the meat's origins, which was advertised as French meat but （機の）カム from Romania, Belgium or Canada.
Both 否定するd intentional 悪事を働くこと. They are 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of setting up the 計画／陰謀, which ran between January 2012 and February 2013, with the complicity of the 仲買人s, Hendricus Windmeijer and Johannes Fasen.
The four have been 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with 共謀 to defraud （弁護士の）依頼人s and 消費者s and could 直面する up to 10 years in 刑務所，拘置所.
FILE - In this photo taken on Feb. 15, 2013, a person stands at Spanghero meat company in Castelnaudary, southern フラン. Four people are going on 裁判，公判 in Paris over an (a)手の込んだ／(v)詳述する 申し立てられた／疑わしい 計画／陰謀 that fed 消費者s across Europe frozen foods 含む／封じ込めるing cheap horse meat fraudulently labeled as pricier beef. (AP Photo/Bruno ツバメ, とじ込み／提出する)
Windmeije, Poujol and Monguillon were 現在の at the Paris courthouse on Monday but Fasen did not show up.
によれば several マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測s, Fasen was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 詐欺 in 2013 in a different 事例／患者 関係のある to selling horse meat and 罰金d 50,000 euros ($56,800). His company Draap 貿易（する）ing Ltd - which is the Dutch word for horse (paard) （一定の）期間d backwards - bought horse meat from Brazil and Mexico and sold it in フラン as halal beef between 2006 and 2009.
によれば 解放 newspaper, 捜査官／調査官s have 設立するd that Spanghero bought 790 トンs of horse meat from Draap 貿易（する）ing Ltd in 2012-13, but Poujol's lawyer Antoine Vey told the French daily his （弁護士の）依頼人 was the 犠牲者 of Fasen, rather than his 共犯者.
"His only criterion when he bought the meat was its price," Vey said.
The スキャンダル broke out in 2013 in Britain and quickly spread as horse meat turned up across Europe in frozen supermarket meals such as burgers and lasagna, 同様に as in in beef pasta sauce, on restaurant menus, in school lunches and in hospital meals.
Millions of 製品s were pulled from 蓄える／店 棚上げにするs in Britain, Ireland, フラン, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway, and supermarkets and food 供給者s were told to 実験（する） 過程d beef 製品s for horse デオキシリボ核酸.
European 公式の／役人s have said the スキャンダル is the result of 詐欺, and かもしれない an international 犯罪の 共謀 to pass off cheap horse meat as more expensive beef. And although 公式の／役人s said that eating horse meat was not 一般に dangerous, the スキャンダル upset people in places where such meat 伝統的に is not eaten.
"The (Spanghero) 事例／患者 is such a スキャンダル that it 全く discredited the meat 産業," said Edmond-Claude Frety, the lawyer 代表するing an 協会 of French 顧客s.
