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   XPost: sac.politics   
   From: lefty-turds@cnn.com   
      
   By Associated Press July 16 at 1:09 PM   
   BRUSSELS — Authorities have arrested at least 66 people in a   
   European food scam which sold horse meat unfit for human   
   consumption.   
      
   European Union police coordinating organization Europol   
   announced Sunday that eight nations cooperated in the operation.   
   In Spain, 65 people face a series of charges relating to public   
   health, money laundering and animal abuse.   
      
   The operation took several months and the chief suspect, a Dutch   
   businessman, was arrested in Belgium in April.   
      
   Spain’s Civil Guard said that the criminal ring acquired horses   
   in Spain and Portugal that were “in poor shape, old, or had been   
   designated ‘not apt for consumption.’” After falsifying   
   paperwork and substituting microchips used to identify the   
   horses, the animals were slaughtered and the meat shipped to   
   Belgium.   
      
   The Civil Guard said that the profits from the illegal meat   
   could reach 20 million euros ($23 million) a year.   
      
   The case was linked to a 2013 scandal when Irish authorities   
   detected beef burgers containing horse meat.   
      
   Authorities in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania,   
   Switzerland, Britain and Spain cooperated in the operation.   
      
   Liberalism so good.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/europe-horse-meat-scam-   
   at-least-66-people-arrested/2017/07/16/a5968e68-6a42-11e7-abbc-   
   a53480672286_story.html?utm_term=.009fe89ebcb7   
      
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