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I imagine it will be smuggled out of the country immediately.

No cheese buyer at a large retailer in the UK would touch it. It’s not worth the risk.

Similarly at the artisan end of the market, it’s a small world (like the article says) - why would you risk your personal and commercial reputation buying stolen goods? You wouldn’t.

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I wonder how they are going to smuggle such a gigantic quantity of cheese out of the country. It’s kind of hard to move 22 tonnes of anything without raising suspicion, and doing so in a hurry poses additional challenges.

I imagine they would have to do it Caerphilly.

Damnit, you got me with that one !!

I’m not disagreeing with you, but 22 tonnes is about 48,000 lbs, which is about the limit (or just over) of what a regular semi trailer can haul (at least in the US). So moving it likely isn’t much issue, but the selling it likely is

But once you've got it out of the country, where then? Would French cheese buyers take it? Or do you have to go to Russia?

There are many places where "this is a highly prized luxury commodity from the West" is more than enough to create a market, and legally lax enough to be minimal risk.

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