Angri, contraband alcohol offered as windshield washer fluid

In current days, following a service exercise aimed toward repressing fraud within the sector of excise duties and different oblique taxes on manufacturing and consumption, the Guardia di Finanza of the Provincial Command of Salerno has seized over 4 thousand liters of pure alcohol smuggled. Specifically, the Yellow Flames of the Firm of Decrease Nocera they managed to determine, within the Municipality of Angersa sheet metallic constructing, roughly 40 m2, inside which an actual manufacturing facility had been arrange for the advertising and marketing of alcoholic drinks, with none authorization and in violation of essentially the most primary well being and hygiene requirements.

A complete of 4,090 litres of ethyl alcohol had been discovered, of which 300, ready to be saved and nonetheless contained in a plastic tank with a capability of 1 thousand litres, geared up with an electrical pump motor and a dishing out gun, and three,790 litres already saved inside 758 5-litre plastic cans, able to be smuggled with the counterfeit industrial label of “Concentrated windshield washer fluid“.

An additional 480 cans, additionally already labelled, had been discovered empty. The individual accountable was reported to this Public Prosecutor’s Workplace and can now must reply for “Evasion of evaluation and fee of excise obligation on alcohol and alcoholic drinks” in addition to of “counterfeiting” and receiving stolen items”though no judgment of guilt could be expressed till an irrevocable sentence of conviction has been issued.

In contrast to legally produced alcohol, bootleg alcohol is just not topic to high quality and security controls, which implies it could include impurities and contaminants that may be dangerous to the well being of customers.