Plant organizers received up to UAH 15 million in income monthly, but did not pay any taxes. The budget received a deficit of approximately 40,000,000 Hryvnia.
The national police liquidated a large-scale underground distillery on the territory of a former meat processing plant in Kropyvnytskyi, where up to 20,000 liters of alcohol were produced per day. The press service of the National Police reported this on Thursday, October 24.
Plant organizers received up to UAH 15 million in income monthly, but did not pay any taxes. The budget received a deficit of approximately 40,000,000 Hryvnia.
In order not to attract unnecessary attention, the organizers used the site of a former meat processing plant, which has not been in operation for more than ten years.
Products for chemical and technical purposes are mixed with a mixture with a high aldehyde concentrate and fed to three 30-meter columns. The liquid obtained during the distillation process is subjected to a correction (purification) process. During the day, the clandestine plant produces up to 20,000 liters of alcohol, from which 96,000 bottles of alcoholic beverages can be obtained.
The produced raw materials were delivered to underground workshops for the production of alcoholic beverages. Entrepreneurs used converted trucks with trailers, in which structures of 15,000 liters were installed. As a rule, alcohol was brought in trucks at night and the car went to the buyer in the morning.
Law enforcement seized more than 50,000 liters of alcohol, partly equipment, as it was still being dismantled.
We remind you that in the Lviv region, an attempt to illegally export abroad the equipment for the manufacture of cigarettes through the Krakovets checkpoint was prevented.
It was also reported that at the Maly Berezny customs post on the Slovakian border, Transcarpathian customs officers found almost two thousand packs of contraband cigarettes in a car with a double bottom.
Source: korrespondent
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