Day 069 - 19 Dec 94 - Page 43


     
     1
     2   Q.   You said that you had checked back for any relevant
     3        documents to do with exports to USA, yes, for -----
     4        A.  That involved our division, that I can only have access
     5        to, yes, I have.  There are some documents to which I have
     6        no access.  There are some documents that are other meat
     7        plants that supply to the US that I know nothing about.
     8        There is a division of Coope Montecillos that exports to
     9        the US, and I have never asked or requested any information
    10        about those.  I have only been involved on the supplier,
    11        that is, the McDonald's side of the business, and the Coope
    12        Montecillos that supplies the McDonald's side of the
    13        business.
    14
    15   Q.   So when you say you have searched for documents to check
    16        the allegations, you are saying that you did not check or
    17        you were not allowed to check the department that exported
    18        to the US, that division?
    19        A.  The division that is not McDonald's division, I have no
    20        control over that.
    21
    22   Q.   What is that division called?
    23        A.  The same -- Coope Montecillos.
    24
    25   Q.   So did they say you could not have access to those
    26        documents?
    27        A.  No.  I never did ask for that information, because it
    28        is none of my business.
    29
    30   Q.   But if McDonald's was concerned to have access to those
    31        documents, then the supplier would show them to you, yes?
    32        A.  That is up to them.  I do not know.
    33
    34   Q.   It is part of your conditions as a buyer, is it not, to
    35        have access to relevant documents?
    36        A.  No, it is not.  It is only to documents that are
    37        related to our side of the business.
    38
    39   Q.   If you are checking to see if a company supplies in other
    40        countries, not directly to McDonald's, not patties, then in
    41        order to check that, you would have to have access to that
    42        particular section, would you not -- the export section, or
    43        whatever?
    44        A.  I have never asked a supplier for what kind of business
    45        they do on their side that is not related to McDonald's,
    46        unless they bring it up.  It is none of my business.  It is
    47        none of the company's business to get into other
    48        companies.  We have no control over what they do,
    49        absolutely, whatsoever.  If we ask and they said, "Yes", we
    50        might see it; if they said, "No", they have that right; 
    51        that is their choice. 
    52 
    53   Q.   They may or may not have the right, but you did not even
    54        ask them, did you?
    55        A.  No.  I have said it before, it is none of my business,
    56        what they do on the other side of the business.
    57
    58   Q.   So, in fact, it is possible then, bearing in mind that you
    59        have not had access to those documents, that they did
    60        export to people in the USA that supplied McDonald's but

Prev Next Index