Fraudsters targeted the high-value cheddar by pretending to be legitimate wholesalers.

Hundreds of truckles of cheddar worth more than £300,000 have been stolen from London cheese specialist Neal’s Yard Dairy.

Fraudsters posing as legitimate wholesalers received the 950 clothbound cheeses from the Southwark-based company before it was realised they were a fake firm.

Neal’s Yard said it had still paid the producers of the cheese so the individual dairies would not have to bear the costs.

It is now trying to deal with the financial setback, a spokesperson said.

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    10•11 hours ago

    I guess, but London is one of the most surveilled places I’ve ever seen. You are within the view of a CCTV camera pretty much everywhere.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•11 hours ago

      Once it’s mobile, leave London and transfer it either to another city, or into different vehicles and back into London. It probably took a while for the warehouse to realize what had happened, so the thieves had quite a head start against the investigators.

      It’s a game of hide and seek now, until they can offload it to a buyer.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•10 hours ago

        Why would you assume there’s a buyer? Maybe these people just really really like cheese

        • @PlantJamEnglish
          5•9 hours ago

          If you ate two pounds of cheese a day every day (about 3700 calories), it would take 66 years to get through all 22 metric tons.

      • Flying SquidMEnglish
        4•10 hours ago

        It must have taken extensive planning. This will make an entertaining film one day.