Wei Ying-Chung

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Wei Ying-Chung (born March 8, 1957), a native of Changhua County, Taiwan, is the third eldest of the Wei brothers who founded the Ting Hsin International Group. He is the founder of the Ting Hsin and Weichuan Education Foundation and has recently focused on philanthropic endeavors, including reviving the Wei Chuan Dragons, the fifth team of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Wei has previously served as the chairman of the Taiwan Food GMP Development Association, Wei Chuan Foods Corporation, Ting Hsin Oil & Fat Industrial, and Cheng I Food Co., Ltd. In 2013 and 2014, he faced public scrutiny due to controversies surrounding oil products. In 2018, the Taichung High Court ruled that the oils produced by Ting Hsin Oil & Fat Industrial were not recycled or gutter oils and did not come from diseased pigs, clarifying previous misinformation spread by the media. However, in 2017, the Intellectual Property Court convicted Wei of fraud concerning the Wei Chuan 98-blended oil formula, sentencing him to two years in prison. After serving over 500 days in prison, he was granted parole at the end of 2018. Subsequently, the Taichung High Court sentenced Wei to another two years for tax evasion, with appeals still ongoing. On January 8, 2020, the various sentences related to the oil products case were combined, and Wei was ordered to serve a total of four years and eight months. In March 2019, he launched a fan page, writing in calligraphy: "I have coexisted with societal misunderstandings for five and a half years." On January 19, 2021, the Taiwan High Court's Taichung branch approved Wei’s parole release.