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 nan UK’s astir celebrated food stores.

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

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

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Mill likes to sojourn nan various market stores erstwhile walking internationally, but besides loves nan section stops for illustration butcher shops and markets. (Shannon Mill)

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

The dairy retailer said that they covered nan costs from nan theft that impacted nan smaller cheesemakers.

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"Despite nan important financial 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 nan workplace Ferme du Wint successful Brunembert (northern France). Brand Valeurs Parc naturel location (Regional Nature Park)  (Flament/Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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The dairy retailer said they are moving pinch rule enforcement and asked residents to beryllium connected nan lookout for "clothbound Cheddars successful a [22-pound] aliases [52-pound] format pinch nan tags detached"