REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo Acquire Licensing RightsMADRID, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Spanish police have seized 74 tonnes of stolen olives in the southern province of Seville, the latest theft triggered by soaring prices caused by a dwindling harvest.
Some 6,000 litres of extra virgin olive oil were stolen in late September from olive oil producer Terraverne, which operates in Teba, a small village in Malaga province, and specialises in premium olive oil.
"With the prices of olive oil, stealing oil is now like stealing jewellery," Larrubia Nogales said in a telephone interview.
Marin Serrano El Lagar, an oil press in Carcabuey, Cordoba, had about 50,000 litres of olive oil stolen a few days later.
Dcoop, the largest olive oil cooperative in Spain and the country's second biggest olive oil producer, said none of its presses had suffered robberies.
Persons:
Marcelo del Pozo, Laura Larrubia Nogales, Larrubia Nogales, Marin Serrano El Lagar, Dcoop, Corina Pons, Emma Pinedo, Charlie Devereux, Nick Macfie
Organizations:
REUTERS, Rights, Spanish, Police, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
La Rinconada, Seville, Rights MADRID, Pilas, Spain, world's, Teba, Malaga province, Nogales, Carcabuey, Cordoba