Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com
In an effort to curb fraudsters, Italian authorities have recently nailed some suspects who were creating faulty olive oil to sell for profit.
With search warrants, police searched 18 garages and warehouses, finding 71 tons of an “oily substance” marketed as “extra virgin olive oil” in cans and tanks in the Puglia region, according to a recent press release issued by the Carabinieri, an Italian police force.
In the end, it was 42 tons of packaged, fake olive oil that was uncovered and ready to sell.
TUSCANY IS GIVING PEOPLE MONEY TO RELOCATE TO SMALL POPULATION TOWNS
The seven suspects are responsible for “criminal association aimed at the sophistication of food substances intended for marketing, and fraud in public military supplies and adulteration,” said the release.
The seven suspects are responsible for “criminal association aimed…
