Executive at Coca-Cola Joint Venture Punished over Wastewater Scam

(Beijing) – A senior executive at a joint venture between a state-owned food conglomerate and the U.S. beverage giant Coca-Cola CO. in the northwestern city of Lanzhou has been punished over a scam to manipulate a wastewater testing device to fool regulators, a local environmental bureau says.

Lanzhou's environmental bureau said in a joint statement with city police on October 20 that its investigators had found that a discharge-testing device installed at a plant was altered in order to give deceptively low readings.