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01 Aug 2017 --- Yesterday, two men started a term behind bars in the UK for conspiring to pass off horsemeat as beef, as part of the wide-reaching food fraud scandal that rocked the industry and consumer confidence in 2013. Andronicos Sideras, owner of Dinos and Sons Ltd. and Ulrich Nielsen of Flexi Foods were sentenced to four years and six months and three years and six months imprisonment respectively, at Inner London Crown Court. Their sentencing relates to the defrauding of consumers by conspiring to label approximately 30 tons of horsemeat as beef products for their own profits. A third man, Alex Ostler-Beech, also of Flexi Foods was given an eighteen month suspended sentence. The judge in the sentencing hearing, Owen Davies QC, told the court how the plot was not just confined to Britain or the companies the three men worked for. |
