Seafood importer getting time for fish switch
A Panama City, Fla. seafood importer has been sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay the government $1.1 million in restitution for passing off more than a million pounds of catfish as grouper, the Associated Press reports.
Danny Nguyen drew the sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to smuggle mislabeled fish and conspiring to launder money from the sale.
The report said Nguyen imported lower-cost catfish from Vietnam and labeled it as channa, bass, or grouper. The fish was mislabeled to save money on taxes and import fees, federal prosecutors said.
Seafood importer getting time for fish switch
