A Spanish Guardia Civil detained two people, in Murcia, Spain, suspected of importing olive oil from Portugal, which was then sold with falsified labeling, without health registration or traceability documentation.
In the operation, called ‘Almazara’, authorities seized 400 liters of olive oil that did not comply with current regulations.
According to the Spanish press, the investigation began last March, when the Guardia Civil was alerted by the public to possible falsified labels that were being used to sell olive oil in different municipalities in the Guadalentín region.
Initially, civil guards visited a retail store in the municipality of Alhameño, where they found five-liter bottles of olive oil for sale with a falsified label, which the establishment’s owners said had been purchased from a distributor.
The Guardia Civil thus established the main line of investigation into the olive oil distributor, located in a house in Librilla. It was in the garage of this house that a large number of unlabeled bottles of olive oil were found.
Once the evidence was gathered, the authorities arrested two people for crimes against public health and food fraud, suspected of being behind the import of olive oil from Portugal and its subsequent marketing and distribution with falsified labeling.
You can see a video of the operation released by the Guardia Civil in the gallery above.
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