The Neal’s Yard heist: Why black market criminals target luxury cheese

stapp · Nov 10, 2024

When dairy farmer Patrick Holden sat down at his kitchen table to read his emails one day in July, he couldn’t believe his luck. A buyer, who claimed to represent a French supermarket chain, wanted to buy 22 tonnes of Hafod, his specialist cheddar.
“It was the biggest order for our cheese we’ve ever received,” he recalls, “and, because it was from France, I thought, ‘finally, people on the continent are appreciating what we do’.”
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Luxury cheese theft is on the rise in Europe and the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmz42pjpnjo

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