Letter from Italy: Slippery Business : The New Yorker

June 7, 2013 at 7:22 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: food

Between August and November of 1991, the Mazal II and another tanker, the Katerina T., delivered nearly ten thousand tons of Turkish hazelnut oil and Argentinean sunflower-seed oil to Riolio, all identified as Greek olive oil. Riolio’s owner, Domenico Ribatti, grew rich from the bogus oil, assembling substantial real-estate holdings, including a former department store in Bari.

viaLetter from Italy: Slippery Business : The New Yorker.

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