The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Halal lamb was actually ‘non halal turkey’ jury is told
Court
A meat company sold halal lamb that was neither halal nor lamb, a jury has been told.
Dutch Bangla Direct Ltd are accused of selling over 100 tonnes of the low-cost white meat – said to be turkey to takeaways and shops.
Acourt heard the alleged con-trick nettedthenowdefunct meat wholesaler company a whopping £250,000 in profit.
Trading Standards discovered the alleged fraud during an investigation into the national horse meat scandal in 2013.
A jury has been told DNA tests showed the meat was turkey.
The firm’s boss Mahmudur Rohman, (46), of Rothbart Way, Peterborough has now gone on trial with three other men at Leicester Crown Court. The court heard Rohman was the sole director of the Peterborough-based firm which was “the front or conduit to carry out their fraudulent activity”.
He is on trial along with Kamal Rahman, (54), of Derby Drive, Peterborough, Mohammed Anwarul Hoque, (56), and his 25-year-old son Mohammed Zunaid Hoque both of Uplands Road, Oadby, Leicester.
The court was told in i nterview with Trading Standards, Rahman said: “I’m a chef myself also and I know if someone brings me two pieces of meat, I can tell which one’s cow and which one’s lamb.”
All the men deny all the charges against them.