ILLEGAL VODKA BOTTLING ROOM DISCOVERED IN ARMAVIR
Noyan Tapan
Sep 3, 2007
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. Employees of the State Tax
Service (STS) adjacent to the RA government discovered an illegal
vodka bottling room in an apartment of the city of Armavir (Armavir
marz). NT correspondent was informed from the STS press service that
STS employees confiscated about 600 bottles (0.5-liter, 0.7-liter and
1-liter ones) of 10 vodka types without excise stamps, 300 liters of
not yet bottled vodka, 100 liters of spirit, 2,000 plugs and empty
containers. The damage done to the state only as a result of absence
of the respective food licence and the right to bottle vodka makes
15 million drams (about 44 thousand dollars).
According to the same source, 130 bottles of brandy with faked excise
stamps or without stamps were discovered at Yerevan’s Airarat Fair.