Zespri calls in police over cross-border kiwifruit transfer

By Paul McBeth April 3 (BusinessDesk) - Zespri International has called in police to investigate the transfer of Gold3 and Gold9 kiwifruit varieties into China that may have been done illegally.  Last year the Mount Maunganui-based international fruit marketer started investigating reports that a kiwifruit licence had been sold to a third party, breaching the terms limiting transfers within a country, and it passed on that evidence to police in December which is investigating, it said in a statement.  "The purported sale of a licence f...