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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian police bust illegal cheesemaking ring
Moscow (AFP) - Russian police said Tuesday they had detained an "international criminal gang" that produced contraband cheese worth some $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 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the destruction of food smuggled into the country illegally.
Now police in the Moscow region say they have arrested six people for producing cheese worth some $30 million (27 million euros) with banned Western rennet, a substance containing enzymes used for cheese production.
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The suspects could face fraud charges that carry a possible sentence of up to 10 years in prison, police said.
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Russia's general prosecutor on Tuesday launched a hotline for citizens to report illicit Western cheeses and pates to the authorities.
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 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the destruction of food smuggled into the country illegally.
Now police in the Moscow region say they have arrested six people for producing cheese worth some $30 million (27 million euros) with banned Western rennet, a substance containing enzymes used for cheese production.
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The suspects could face fraud charges that carry a possible sentence of up to 10 years in prison, police said.
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Russia's general prosecutor on Tuesday launched a hotline for citizens to report illicit Western cheeses and pates to the authorities.
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-police-smash-illegal-30-million-cheesemaking-ring-004308782.html
Who knew you could go to prison for 10 years for making illegal cheese in Russia.
Putin is nuts.
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Russian police bust illegal cheesemaking ring (Original Post)
davidn3600
Aug 2015
OP
If you are going to make apologies for a petty dictator and believe in following all laws
CBGLuthier
Aug 2015
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. CHEESE IT!!! The COPS!!!!!!
It's beets and potatoes for you, comrade...
I'll bet he's eating Swiss chocolate and farting through French silk....
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)2. I hope they don't get grilled over it
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3. well, it refers to any manufacturer of... dairy products.
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts)4. What tipped the police off? MAKING the cheese or CUTTING the cheese? nt
MattSh
(3,714 posts)5. So you're suggesting that...
in the US of A, that it's OK if people make contraband cheese using banned ingredients, and that it would be A-OK with the authorities?
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)9. If you are going to make apologies for a petty dictator and believe in following all laws
no matter how asinine, you might consider taking that mask off as you have no idea what it means.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)10. Do you know what rennet is and why it is necessary to make cheese anywhere?
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Spirochete
(5,264 posts)7. But still no progress
on finding out who had the key to the strawberry locker?
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)8. Who knew Russia was so bored that they actually took the time
and money to go after someone making cheese?