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Chippy and takeaway owners warned over ‘strange’ new crime trend

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Takeaway owners are being warned by police about a ‘strange’ new crime. Police say they are seeing an increasing number of cases in which used cooking oil has been stolen from food venues.

It is estimated as much as a fifth of the used cooking oil produced in the UK is stolen and can be converted into unregulated biodiesel for the black market.

Derbyshire Police stopped and arrested two London men on the M1 in connection with the theft of cooking oil in Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, North Wales, in November last year.

The investigation was passed over to North Wales Police (NWP). And the force has now warned that the crime, though not new, has recently developed into something of a “trend”, North Wales Live reports.

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