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Ottawa - A former food worker accused of stealing and trying to sell secret recipes for fast food restaurants such as McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken online is on the run, Canadian media said on Tuesday.
Police, corporate lawyers and even private investigators have been searching for Abdool Gafoor, 42, after he failed to appear in court on November 3 to face related charges, the Globe and Mail reported.
The Guyanese immigrant admitted to trying to sell some of the fast food industry's most closely guarded recipes, but has not been seen since mid-October after leaving his job at a Toronto food factory, the newspaper said.
For the past year, Gafoor had worked odd shifts at Griffith Laboratories' Toronto plant. The Illinois-based company designs and manufactures spices, sauces and recipes for popular fast food restaurants.
The company, which discovered its recipes for sale online and linked the website to Gafoor, would not reveal its client list.
But local media reported chicken recipes for KFC, Bonanza and McDonald's were among its culinary triumphs.
"Recipes that have been claimed to be centuries old can now be all yours. Do not drain money into research and development, profiling the taste of North Americans. Get great recipes fast and easy," the website boasted, said the Globe and Mail.
It has since been shut down.
Authorities searched the homes of brother, sister and ex-wife of Gafoor, and seized his computers, documents and other belongings, the newspaper said.
Toronto police are now searching for Gafoor after his disappearance earned him a contempt of court finding.