With the start of the summer season, Turkish authorities and police continue to raid the country’s resorts in search of counterfeit alcohol. Moreover, the raids, which started in late April, are no longer the first unclean businessman. And here again – a secret warehouse with a deadly drink was discovered, and right in the hotel. Tourists were to become victims of counterfeiters.
Police raided a hotel in the Payall area of Alanya in Antalya province. There they discovered a secret room (just like in the book about Harry Potter). According to Turkish media, the lower floor of the fire exit was closed with a plasterboard false partition for counterfeit hiding.
During the searches, police officers who entered the secret compartment seized 348 counterfeit drinks in liter bottles and 25 counterfeit labels. Two hotel employees were detained on suspicion.
It will be recalled that the season of searching for producers and suppliers of counterfeit alcohol began at the end of April in Antalya. And it started with a big “booty”. 2,000 liters of counterfeit prepared for bottling in a truck stopped by the resort police were seized at once. Forgery was supposed to be placed even in the hotel. In the context of the financial crisis, expensive imported alcoholic beverages are periodically trying to replace counterfeit products of unknown quality, often simply life-threatening, read more at the link.
However, the most high-profile case of counterfeiting – and Russian tourism, which was directly affected – took place long before the current crisis: on May 27, 2011 because of “burnt” alcohol killed participants in promotional tours for travel agencies organized by tour operators “Mostravel” and “Coral travel”. The next day after the Evening Yacht tour, most of the participants were hospitalized on suspicion of methyl alcohol poisoning. On May 30, one of the participants in the ill-fated cruise Maria Chaliapina died at a hospital in the resort of Antalya. Aigul Zalyaeva died in her wake, and on May 31, a third girl, 20-year-old Marina Shevelyova, died in a Moscow hospital. A week later, Russian Alexander Zhuchkov died at a hospital in the Turkish city of Pamukkale, and doctors diagnosed him with “severe alcohol intoxication”, which led to cardiac arrest.