Robbers posing as wholesalers stole 22 tonnes of luxury cheddar from London’s Neal’s Yard Dairy, costing £300,000, before the scam was discovered.

Fraudsters posing as French supermarket buyers have stolen more than 22 tonnes of premium cheddar cheese after operating a “deceptively convincing” scam on a London dairy.

Neal’s Yard Dairy said it delivered more than 950 wheels of cheddar to someone posing a wholesaler for a big French retailer

LONDON - British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on Oct 26 urged cheese lovers to help police catch scammers who conned a London dairy out of 20 tonnes of English and Welsh Cheddar. Mr Oliver described the theft as a “brazen heist of shocking proportions”.

A massive theft of 22 metric tons of high-end cheddar cheese, valued at £300,000, was reported by Neal's Yard Dairy in London. Disguised as a wholesale distributor, the thief made off with the goods,

A London cheese merchant claims to have been cheated out of a large quantity of cheddar. They were the victims of a theft in which more than 22 tons

London's Neal's Yard Dairy fell victim to a daring scam, losing 22 tonnes of luxury cheddar to thieves posing as wholesale distributors, prompting a police investigation and widespread shock in the cheese community.

A sophisticated scam targeting artisan cheesemakers has resulted in the theft of 22 tonnes of cheddar that was valued over £300,000. Neal's Yard Dairy, a London-based distributor and retailer of British cheese,

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.