Fraudsters wheel away huge haul of artisan cheddar worth an eye-popping $400,000

Cheese bandits wheeled distant an eye-popping magnitude of cheddar food from 1 of the UK’s astir celebrated food stores.

Neal’s Yard Dairy announced successful a societal media station that thieves, "posing arsenic a morganatic wholesale distributor for a major French retailer," ordered implicit 950 wheels of the clothbound Hafod, Westcombe and Pitchfork cheddar.

The food was worthy astir $390,000, the institution revealed.

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Mill likes to sojourn the assorted market stores erstwhile traveling internationally, but besides loves the section stops similar butcher shops and markets. (Shannon Mill)

Neal’s Yard Dairy reportedly delivered 22 metric tons (48,488 pounds) of cheddar earlier realizing the wholesale distributor was a fake. 

The dairy retailer said that they covered the outgo from the theft that impacted the smaller cheesemakers.

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"Despite the important fiscal blow, we person honoured our committedness to our small-scale suppliers and paid each 3 artisan cheesemakers successful full," they said.

La fromagerie dIsa, integrated food from the workplace Ferme du Wint successful Brunembert (northern France). Brand Valeurs Parc naturel determination (Regional Nature Park)  (Flament/Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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The dairy retailer said they are moving with instrumentality enforcement and asked residents to beryllium connected the lookout for "clothbound Cheddars successful a [22-pound] oregon [52-pound] format with the tags detached"