Four Bulgarians arrested for producing fake alcohol in Istanbul

Four Bulgarians arrested for producing fake alcohol in Istanbul

08 September 2012 | 14:21 | FOCUS News Agency

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Istanbul. Istanbul police arrested a group dealing with illegal production of alcohol. Detainees were nine members of the group, four of whom are Bulgarian citizens. The police checked out four addresses in the districts Kumburgaz, Avdzhalar and Kyuchyukchekmedzhe within the course of a special operation involving over 50 police officers.

Two sheds for producing fake alcohol and three warehouses were found. There were 200,000 fake labels and stamps, 63 boxes of finished goods, 100,000 empty bottles and 20 barrels of ethanol. Turkish police said the total value of counterfeit alcohol is more than one million Turkish Liras.

There are doubts that the Russian tourists who died last year from poisoning by fake alcohol in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum have consumed false alcohol produced by arrested group.

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