Justice officials have said the main suspect is a businessman named Kamel Chikhi, a wealthy meat trader known to have links to politicians.
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In one episode, Castelli and his castmates worked as butchers for a local meat trader, tasked with chopping off the heads of chickens and pigs; the scene takes a surprising turn when Castelli vomits.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested a Dutch meat trader sentenced in France for his role in a 2013 scam that passed off cheap horse meat as pricier beef to various ready-made meals and burger producers across Europe.
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BRUSSELS, June 43 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: — Danish food company Danish Crown to acquire sole control of meat trader SPF-Denmark (approved June 7) — Hearst Communications Inc and Advance Publications to set up a joint venture (approved June 7) — PitPoint and Primagaz Nederland to take joint control of PitPoint LNG, a liquefied natural gas provider in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany (approved June 7) — British insurer Aviva Group and Credit Mutuel Insurance Group to acquire joint control of an office building in Paris, France (notified June 6/deadline July 11/simplified) — CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd and Vimpelcom to merge their Italian mobile operations (notified Feb.
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The horse meat that was found in Comigel products originated at Doly Com, a Romanian-based slaughterhouse. An inquiry by the French government showed that "the meat had left Romania clearly and correctly labelled as horse. It was afterwards that it was relabelled as beef." Doly Com supplied the horse meat under a contract to Cyprus-based Draap Trading Ltd, a meat trader which operates in the Netherlands.
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Albert Reuss was the son of Hungarian Jews, Ignaz Reisz (1855–1911) and Sidonia née Freund (1861–1928). Ignaz was a Fleischhauermeister and Fleischhändler, a master butcher and meat trader. The couple at some stage moved to Malacky, in former Hungary, now Slovakia, where their first three sons were born. In the late 1880s, the family moved to Vienna, where Albert was born, followed by a further six children, three of whom died in infancy, leaving seven surviving children in all.
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Having initially worked as a meat trader at Smithfield Market David Thompson helped his father to float his meat wholesaling business in 1966.QPR match then some retail therapy Daily Telegraph, 25 January 2003 He co-founded Hillsdown Holdings in 1975 and then, in 1989, sold his stake in the business for £500m.Merciful release in Hillsdown bid hint Guardian, 14 May 1999 He acquired the Cheveley Park Stud near Newmarket: famous horses coming from Cheveley include Party Politics, the 1992 Grand National winner, owned by Patricia, his wife. He was also an investor in Queens Park Rangers Football Club.
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The Polish Kremlin garrison then found itself besieged. Patriarch Hermogenes refuses to sign a letter condemning anti-Polish actions, painting by Pavel Chistyakov In the meantime, in late 1611, prince Dmitry Pozharsky was asked to lead the public opposition against the Poles, organized by the merchants' guild of Nizhny Novgorod. The respected town butcher (literally, a meat-trader) Kuzma Minin oversaw the handling of funds donated by the merchants to form the Second Volunteer Army (). When part of the Polish army mutinied in January 1612 due to unpaid wages and retreated from Russia towards the Commonwealth, the forces of the Second Volunteer Army strengthened the other anti-Polish Russian forces in Moscow.
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