WELLINGTON - A businessman was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison on Wednesday for threatening to contaminate infant formula in New Zealand, the world's largest dairy exporter.
Jeremy Kerr pleaded guilty to two counts of blackmail after sending threatening letters to New Zealand's national farmers'group and dairy giant Fonterra in 2014.
The messages were accompanied by packages of infant formula laced with pesticide 1080 and demanded that use of the toxic pesticide be stopped. Kerr's business sold a competing pesticide.
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