Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later this month Foot will take the first step in the long march toward his possible ascendancy as Britain's Prime Minister. The occasion will be a mass Labor Party protest against the Thatcher government in Liverpool, where unemployment is running at 15.2%, almost twice the national average. In spite of his crutches, Foot is determined to join the demonstration march when it converges on the docks of Merseyside. Last week he delivered his first salvo against the Thatcher government: "We will proceed to unite to attack the outrages and infamies which this government is inflicting on our people...
...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...
...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...
Ringmasters of the Liverpool scheme were two Dutch businessmen, a Leiden wine retailer and the head of a bottling firm in Lisse. The Lisse company, investigators learned, also did business with an other Dutch wine dealer named Bernard Kahn. Authorities believe Kahn was running his own, higher-class fraud...
...denies using any forged papers. The Liverpool operation, he laments, "committed frauds and forged certificates in such a stupid way that they came to grief...