Russian police bust bootleg cheese ring
Print Edition
Russian police said yesterday they had detained an 鈥渋nternational criminal gang鈥 that produced contraband cheese worth some US$30 million using banned Western ingredients.
Russian officials are currently waging war against produce from the West prohibited under a year-old embargo introduced in retaliation for sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine.
Authorities earlier this month started bulldozing piles of cheese, peaches and even frozen geese after President Vladimir Putin ordered the destruction of food smuggled in illegally.
Now Moscow police say they have arrested six people for producing cheese worth some US$30 million using 470 kilograms of banned Western rennet, a substance containing enzymes used to make cheese.
Authorities 鈥渇oiled the activities of an organized international criminal gang in the Moscow region whose members have for a long time been engaged in smuggling sanctioned products from abroad,鈥 police said in a statement.
Police claim the cheese, which was sold under counterfeit labels, had made its way into grocery stores in St Petersburg, as well as in the Moscow and Leningrad regions.
The suspects could face fraud charges that carry a possible jail term of up to 10 years.
Russian government bodies have warned citizens against consuming embargoed Western products, which they claim can be harmful.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 娌狪CP璇侊細娌狪CP澶05050403鍙-1
- |
- 浜掕仈缃戞柊闂讳俊鎭湇鍔¤鍙瘉锛31120180004
- |
- 缃戠粶瑙嗗惉璁稿彲璇侊細0909346
- |
- 骞挎挱鐢佃鑺傜洰鍒朵綔璁稿彲璇侊細娌瓧绗354鍙
- |
- 澧炲肩數淇′笟鍔＄粡钀ヨ鍙瘉锛氭勃B2-20120012
Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
