Bootleg alcohol warehouse discovered in Zlín

The police in Zlín in eastern Moravia on Thursday discovered a warehouse with suspicious alcohol in bottles without tax stamps along with thousands of counterfeit labels. The proprietor of the warehouse had been arrested earlier. The warehouse was set up in a garage in the part of town where several people bought methanol-contaminated alcohol. The head of local police said however they had no evidence the man was the main distributor of bootleg liquor in the area.

Author: Jan Richter