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The international police agency has issued a ‘Purple Notice’, which means its 190 member countries are asked “to seek or provide information on modus operandi, objects, devices and concealment methods used by criminals”.This action is not connected to the Brazilian ‘Weak Flesh’ scandal involving the bribing of Brazilian meat inspectors. In fact, it follows proactive action by the Association of Animal Protein (ABPA - Associação Brasileira de Proteína Animal) which has been relaying intelligence to the France-based global police agency on a range of fraud-based attacks on the Brazilian meat trade – both imports and exports. It has sent Interpol information about 700 frauds perpetrated on the industry by external criminals between July 2015 and December 2016.'Sophisticated' criminal networkRicardo Santini, vice-president for ABPA, which represents the pork and poultry sectors, told GlobalMeatNews: “ In the past year-and-a-half, more than 700 cases have been reported to ABPA. |
