Word: eutron
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...swindles began to unravel last year in Liverpool, where a firm called Eutron Ltd. had hired a British bonded warehouse company to store and label bottles of French wine shipped in from The Netherlands. Eutron ran up a $22,000 bill with the warehouse, which in turn seized 3,000 bottles of wine still awaiting export to the U.S. Meanwhile a British customs officer got curious about the special green certificates of origin that under European Community rules must accompany quality wines. On the Dutch seal on one form, he noticed, the likeness of Queen Juliana was facing...
...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 abroad...
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