A Chinese Garlic Smuggling Scam Worth $13 Million Is Being Investigated By Swedish Police
The Local reports that the pair are believed to have been involved in shipping garlic from China to
Police believe 100 tonnes of garlic may have been smuggled across the border, avoiding around €10 million or $13.1 million in taxes, before a truck full of garlic was caught in 2010.
"We're talking about big money and a profitable operation," one prosecutor told a local newspaper.
Smuggling Chinese garlic into the EU has become big business.
Last month, the UK sentenced one man to six years in prison after evading around $3.2 million in customs duty while importing Chinese garlic, the AP reports. Meanwhile, Ireland's top food producers was sentenced to six year in prison last year for avoiding $1.8 million in import taxes by listing Chinese garlic as apples.
Norway has had it's own problems with food smuggling recently. In 2011, a butter shortage apparently caused by low-carb diets and "Soviet conditions"' in the Norwegian butter industry led to a number of incidents of butter smuggling.
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