Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – 12-25-17 At least twelve people have died and double that have been hospitalized from alcohol poisoning after consuming bootleg Clairin. The first deaths occurred on the week of December 15th, with a second wave occurring among those attending the funerals for the first to die from drinking the methanol laced…
December 22. 2017 – Istanbul, Turkey The continuing rise in large scale bootleg booze operations in Turkey is a direct response to the skyrocketing taxes on alcohol under President Tayyip Erdogan. Since the beginning of the Erdogan Administration in 2003, the tax on raki has risen an astounding 665%, now accounting for two-thirds the cost…
December 21, 2017 – Jersey City, NJ The week of December 16 is the busiest week for retail purchases of Wine and Liquor. Holiday cheer has become associated with alcohol consumption. Unfortunately, in recent years the increase in fake liquor has also surged during the Holiday season. Headlines around the world are an indication of…
December 17, 2017 – Washington D.C. Three days after the United States Inspector General’s Office announced a probe into the State Department protocol for tracking reports of tainted alcohol incidents in Mexico, the procedures will change. The U.S. state Department will now begin tracking reports of blackouts and injury related to tainted alcohol reports by…
December 15, 2017 – Jersey City, New Jersey The U.S. Office of Inspector General has opened an investigation into the response or lack thereof, by the U.S. State Department into hundreds of complaints by United States Citizens of tainted alcohol in Mexico. Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican Representing Wisconsin received a letter from Inspector General…
December 8, 2017 – New York City, New York In an all-out publicity campaign aimed at the busy holiday resort season, Mexico’s Secretary of Tourism, Enriaue de la Madrid Cordero, made the rounds on American Media. Speaking on Power Lunch, a CNBC financial show, Mr. Cordero reiterated the message, “There is no evidence about tainted…
Beijing, China – December 7, 2017 In an unusual twist of fake wine, Chinese Officials for the Administration of Industry and Commerce paid a visit to a company called Shanghi Haotuo International Trading Company Ltd, located in the Fengtai District of Beijing. They were acting on a complaint by the luxury conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy…
December 5, 2017 – Mutuati, Meru County, Kenya Meru County is the sixth largest urban center in Kenya, home to an estimated 1.4 million people. The most populous city is Meru, the county seat. Throughout the County there are towns surrounded by farms and homesteads. Agents from the Anti-Counterfeit Agency along with Police Officers from…
November 30, 2017 – County Louth, Ireland A Gardai farm raid produced a harvest of fake alcohol on November 29,2017. The Irish Tax and Customs Revenue Division announced in a Press Release the successful conclusion of a joint operation of Revenue Officers and armed Gardai from the town of Dundalk on a farm in County…
Fake Branded Liquor Cases November 29,2017 – Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia The gated community of Goodview Heights, in Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia is billed as a holistic township. It is a planned development that features upper middle-class apartments, condominiums and single-family residents, complete with retail and office space. The idyllic silence of this secured community was shattered…
