The Kyoto District Court sentenced the president of a poultry operation Tuesday to a suspended one-year prison term for not reporting a bird flu outbreak at a Kyoto Prefecture farm earlier this year.
Asada Nosan Co., the company owned by defendant Hideaki Asada, 41, was fined 500,000 yen for the coverup.
Asada was found guilty of conspiring with his 67-year-old father, Hajimu, to conceal the outbreak in February. His father and mother apparently hanged themselves in March as the scandal widened.