LONDON: British celeb chef Jamie Oliver on Saturday urged cheese lovers to assist police catch fraudsters who duped a London dairy out of twenty-two tons of English and Welsh cheddar cheese.
Oliver described the theft as “brazen theft of horrific proportions”.
He advised his Instagram followers to be looking out in the event that they heard something about him providing “truckloads of very effective cheese” at a “low cost value,” including that the cheddar was initially price round £300,000 ($388,000).
The attraction comes after Neal’s Yard Dairy mentioned it delivered greater than 950 wheels of cheddar cheese to an alleged fraudster who posed as a wholesale distributor for a significant French retailer earlier than realizing he had been duped.
The corporate, one of many UK’s main distributors and retailers of British artisan cheese, mentioned it was nonetheless paying Hafod, Westcombe and Pitchfork, small producers of the stolen cheese, so it could not need to bear the fee.
She added that she is working with the London Metropolitan Police to establish the perpetrators.
The Metropolitan Police mentioned in an announcement on Friday that it was investigating “a report of the theft of a giant amount of cheese” from a retailer in London.
“Investigations into the circumstances are ongoing,” she added, including that nobody has been arrested but.
The dairy firm is urging cheese retailers worldwide to contact them if they believe they could have offered stolen cheese, significantly cloth-wrapped cheddar in 10kg or 24kg (22lb or 52lb) codecs with separate labels.
