Archive

Russian Cops Bust $30M Cheese Ring

STINKS

Counterfeit cheese.

cheats/2015/08/18/russian-cops-bust-30m-cheese-ring/150818-russian-cheese-ring-cheat_zovlo5
Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters

Russian authorities have arrested six people for running a contraband cheese ring worth $30 million. The international ring had been producing “as cheese a product made from cheese rennet whose import into Russia is forbidden,” police said. It was then sold under fake foreign labels in Russia, where imports of Western cheeses were banned two years ago, in retaliation for sanctions.

Read it at AP