A Snow Brand Food Co. division chief assigned to investigate allegations of false labeling of meat to get state subsidies by its Kansai Meat Center was directly involved in the fraud he was to probe, sources said Thursday.
The sources said the division chief was assigned to the in-house probe after the company's headquarters received reports of the mislabeling in November.
Snow Brand Food at a news conference on Jan. 23 said its internal examinations of books and other documents last November found no evidence of irregularities.