In Irkutsk, an underground alcohol business was stopped, which police say was organized by a family from Georgia. More than 5 tons of fake alcohol liquid were found in a cafe and a converted garage, along with hundreds of beer cans with altered expiration dates and dozens of boxes of strong alcohol with fake excise stamps. The venue has been shut down, and the organizer may face criminal charges for illegal business and organizing illegal migration.
It was established that the illegal business was organized by a family of natives of Georgia. In the utility room of the café there were more than 700 beer cans, on which an altered expiration date for the product, applied in an improvised manner, was visible. In addition to the snack bar, a garage that was being converted into a wine and liquor store was inspected. There were more than 60 boxes of strong alcoholic beverages with counterfeit excise stamps and numerous 5-liter containers with alcohol-containing surrogate liquid. The conversion of the garage into a storage facility and store was being carried out by four natives of Uzbekistan who did not have identification documents with them. The detained Central Asian citizens have been placed in the special detention center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Irkutsk.During the inspection, law enforcement officers seized more than 5 tons of counterfeit alcohol-containing liquid, which has been sent to the Forensic Center of the regional police. The activity of the café where the inspection was carried out has been suspended.
As for the organizer of the underground business, the question of initiating a criminal case on the fact of illegal entrepreneurship and organizing illegal migration will be decided.
Based on materials from the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Irkutsk