Hanoi police discovered a production line that makes fake homemade vodka during their raid to a local wine company Monday.
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| A police officer checks the fake \'Hanoi vodka\' bottles |
The police seized 2,520 bottles of fake vodka from a truck driven by Nguyen Dinh Chien, who confessed to the police he was ordered to transport the wine by the director of Zuso International Joint Stock Company based in Ngoc Son Industrial Zone.
Based on his testimony, the police stormed into the factory and discovered the production line of fake vodka bottles branded as “Hanoi vodka” – a renowned brandname of Hanoi Liquor Joint Stock Company.
The factory is specialized in making Stroka, a vodka brandname, in a joint venture with Germany’s Friedrich Albert von Döhle Group and at the same time producing fake “Hanoi vodka.”
The fake vodka is made mostly at night and distributed to other provinces the following morning.
The company has made dozens of thousands of fake “Hanoi vodka” bottles, according to the police.
They also seized hundreds of fake anti-counterfeit stamps and thousands of genuine empty “Hanoi vodka” bottles that the company had collected for the production.
The batch was intended to be sold to remote areas in the upcoming Tet (lunar new year).
The police are investigating.
