Word: cottet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pieced together by investigators, the Liverpool scheme was elaborately simple. A mysterious Swiss businessman named Jean Cottet used a Panamanian firm to buy and ship bulk consignments of cheap French table wine to a few select bottling firms in The Netherlands. There it was put into unlabeled bottles and pro vided with a forged set of papers attesting to the fact that it came from a respected wine-growing area entitled to a French government Appellation Contrôleé certifi cate. Thence to England, where the high-priced labels were put on by Eutron before the wine was dispatched...
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