UK retailer, processor unwittingly commit £1.1 million seafood fraud

A major UK retailer and a Grimsby fish company have unwittingly committed an act of fraud worth £1.1 million (€1.5 million/$1.6 million), reports the Grimsby Telegraph.

Between 2012 and 2013, fish firm Kirwin Brothers sold of hundreds of thousands of packs of fish labelled as “sea bass” through the retailer Iceland Foods stores, which were actually Japanese sea bass, a form of perch.

An estimated 400,000 packs of the wrongly labelled fish were sold at 600 Iceland outlets.

Judge Jeremy Richardson QC named Royal Navy chef Michael Redhead, managing director of Michael Redhead Associates Ltd, as the driving force behind the fraud.

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