WELLINGTON, Oct 13, 2015 (AFP) - A New Zealand man was charged with blackmail Tuesday after allegedly threatening to poison baby formula in a bid to extort money from the country’s multi-billion-dollar dairy industry.
The 60-year-old businessman appeared in an Auckland court over letters sent to dairy giant Fonterra and the NZ Farmer’s Federation last November warning formula on supermarket shelves would be laced with pesticide unless his demands were met.
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