Hong Kong, July 25 (DPA) A meat supplier who stole a pig a day for two years and pocketed more than three million Hong Kong dollars ($384,600) from his employer was jailed for three years, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Lai Yiu-wa, 45, who pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and a charge of fraud, said he made 40,000 to 50,000 Hong Kong dollars a month for stealing the pigs and selling them to other suppliers, the South China Morning Post said.

Lai also made up to 700,000 Hong Kong dollars from the sale of pig entrails in a systematic theft spanning nearly four years from November 2003 to June 2007. He also pocketed more than one million Hong Kong dollars that were meant as payments from his company, where he was a director, to a transport firm.