Posted on 10/28/2024 7:54:04 AM PDT by Winniesboy
Cheddar stolen from London cheese specialist Neal’s Yard Dairy may have been shipped abroad to be sold on, a supplier has told the BBC.
Truckles of Patrick Holden's Hafod Welsh Cheddar were among the £300,000 worth of produce stolen in a scam on 21 October.
Mr Holden said he believed the con was "sophisticated" and the cheese could have been taken to Russia or the Middle East....
The high-value, award-winning cheeses, which also include Westcombe and Pitchfork, are sold for as much as £45 per kg.
The fraudsters posed as an agent of a French supermarket in order to receive the 22 tonnes of clothbound cheeses from the Southwark-based company...
"The robbers asked Neal's Yard to dispatch it to another warehouse in London, from which it was then collected by these nefarious people and then disappeared, so they cleverly covered their tracks."
Confirming that the cheese had already been removed from the warehouse, Mr Holden said: "I think they're hoping to sell it in the Middle East or Russia... Because people won't ask questions there. I think if they tried to sell it closer to home they'd find it difficult because the international artisan community is very connected,"
"If they tried to sell it in North America, where we sell a lot of Hafod, or even Australia believe it or not, the balloon would go up because people would ask questions."...
Posting on social media, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver called for people to keep an eye out for "lorryloads of posh cheese" being sold "for cheap".
Oliver told his Instagram followers: "There has been a great cheese robbery. Some of the best cheddar cheese in the world has been stolen."...
The Met Police has confirmed it is investigating "the theft of a large quantity of cheese".
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