Dive Summary:
- Willy Selten, owner of the now-bankrupt meat wholesaler Willy Selten BV, has been arrested after accusations of false accounting and fraud.
- After it was reported 50,000 metric tonnes (approx. 55,000 tons) of meat Selten sold as beef may, in fact, have been horse meat, Dutch food safety agency NVWA asked Selten-supplied companies across Europe to check their meat.
- Dutch prosecutors found that "the business allegedly received 300 tonnes of horsemeat from the Netherlands, England and Ireland in 2011 and 2012."
From the article:
Speaking on Dutch TV on Wednesday night, Mr Selten said the allegations made no sense and denied criminal activity.
'We never stuck labels on something that wasn't beef.'