By Associated Press July 16 at 1:09 PM
BRUSSELS — Authorities have arrested at least 66 people in a
European food scam which sold horse meat unfit for human
consumption.

European Union police coordinating organization Europol
announced Sunday that eight nations cooperated in the operation.
In Spain, 65 people face a series of charges relating to public
health, money laundering and animal abuse.

The operation took several months and the chief suspect, a Dutch
businessman, was arrested in Belgium in April.

Spain’s Civil Guard said that the criminal ring acquired horses
in Spain and Portugal that were “in poor shape, old, or had been
designated ‘not apt for consumption.’” After falsifying
paperwork and substituting microchips used to identify the
horses, the animals were slaughtered and the meat shipped to
Belgium.

The Civil Guard said that the profits from the illegal meat
could reach 20 million euros ($23 million) a year.

The case was linked to a 2013 scandal when Irish authorities
detected beef burgers containing horse meat.

Authorities in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania,
Switzerland, Britain and Spain cooperated in the operation.

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