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Three UK men charged with fraud in horsemeat scandal

The decision comes after an investigation by police.

THREE MEN HAVE been charged in the UK with fraud over the sale of goods that contained beef and horsemeat.

Ulrick Nielsen, Alex Ostler-Beech and Andronicos Sideras will appear at the City of London Magistrates Court on Tuesday 27 September 2016.

Kristin Jones, Head of Specialist Fraud for the CPS said today:

After carefully considering evidence from the UK and overseas, the CPS has decided that there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction and it is in the public interest to charge these three men.
This decision comes after a thorough investigation conducted by the City of London Police in liaison with partner agencies.

Ostler-Beech, Nielsen and Sideras are accused of, between 1 January 2012 and 31 October 2012, conspiring together, and with others, “to defraud purchasers of goods that contained, wholly or in part, a mixture of beef and horsemeat, by dishonestly arranging for beef and horsemeat to be combined for sale as beef”.

Comments are closed as the men have been charged.

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