Liquor stocked at electrical goods shop | Daily News

Liquor stocked at electrical goods shop

The liquor seized yesterday

 

Excise Department and Special Task Force officers raided a shop selling electrical goods at a shop at Jawatta Road, Colombo and seized 583 bottles of foreign liquor valued at about Rs 4.2 million. Of the two suspects arrested, one is a businessman.

The bottles had been stored to be sold at a higher price when liquor shops are closed today and tomorrow. Police said this racket had been carried out for the past eight years.

Excise Department officials said among the bottles of liquor taken into custody, were foreign brands priced at high prices. The suspects are to be produced before the Maligakanda Magistrate's Court. 


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