Yellow the new gold? Thieves steal hundreds of cheeses | Inland

The young suspects wanted to sell the cheeses through Marktplaats, De Gelderlander writes. The newspaper speaks of ‘the yellow gold’. Johannes Weenink had done his best; the cheeses are 12 kilos clean on the hook. Intended for in the Christmas package.

“A window was smashed with the weight of a tractor”, says Weenink. Then the cheeses were loaded into a van. The police were on the scene quickly, but checked.

Unique number

However, the thieves had not taken into account that large batches of cheese at Marktplaats, as well as 300 stolen cheeses in Lievelde, could be a case of ‘1 and 1 = 2’.

“Thanks to our cheese brand and a unique number on the cheeses, we were able to find out that they belonged to the stolen series,” says Weenink.

The two suspects have since been interrogated. Whether they also committed the theft is not yet known. The investigation continues. In the meantime, 9 cheeses have been found, but 291 pieces are still missing. The damage is between 30,000 and 40,000 euros. Weenink still has enough cheese left and says he can meet his obligations.

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