It’s such an innocent and pleasant picture: a block of cheese on a birthday. Yet behind this quintessential Dutch product there appears to be a world of organized crime. For example, several companies have fallen victim to ‘the cheese mafia’ in recent years.
Hundreds of cheeses have been stolen, with a total sales value of more than tens of thousands of euros. But why is cheese so popular among the underworld? How are entire stocks stolen? And what happens to the loot afterwards? You can see it in the new episode of Crime Explained about the cheese mafia.
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