Fake Meat

Horse meat scam netted Spanish criminal network €1.5 million as 41 arrests made

By Vickie Scullard • Illegal ‘potentially dangerous’ horse meat for sale on Spanish food market seized as 41 arrests made. Credit: Europol. Forty-one arrests have been made after illegal and ‘potentially dangerous’ horse meat ready for sale on the Spanish food market was seized. A criminal network is said to have turned “dirt into diamonds” by buying