Criminals earn millions per year with counterfeit expensive olive oil

An international gang with members in Germany and Italy has for years millions of euros profit know to make with cheap sunflower oil. The criminals added more soy to the finished product, then to German restaurants to sell as much more expensive extra virgin or virgin olive oil. So they made an estimated eight million euro profit per year.

The olive oil was made by cheap oil, sunflower oil of a euro per liter to slings with chlorophyll, beta-carotene and soya bean oil. So was the color of the more expensive olive oil is simulated to sellers to the garden. Then was the counterfeit concoction for about five to ten euros per litre sold. the

Europol came into being in cooperation with local authorities, the gang at the track. The slippery substance was, according to the investigation manufactured in unhygienic conditions and in trucks to Germany.

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The trade turned out to be quite lucrative. The gang had a year but for a million euro of cheap oil necessary to make a profit of eight million euros to achieve. Already in march came to Europol the fraud on the track. the

There were twenty criminals in Germany and Italy arrested. During searches explained to Europol a seizure of 150,000 litres of the namaakolie.