Radiy Khabirov on alcohol sale in Bashkiria: “We cannot give up here!”

UFA, 27 August 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

On August 27, at a briefing session in the Government of Bashkiria, the Secretary of the Interdepartmental Council for Public Security RB, Aleksey Kasyanov, reported on measures taken to curb the illegal sale of alcohol.

According to him, over the seven months of this year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkortostan, in cooperation with relevant law enforcement and supervisory authorities, departments carried out six preventive campaigns "Alcohol" and "Counterfeit".

“The activities of eight clandestine workshops for the production and bottling of counterfeit alcohol and alcohol-containing products in Belebey, Sterlitamak, Sibay, as well as Sterlitamaksky, Meleuzovsky, Kiginsky, and Chishminsky districts were stopped. Almost 60 thousand liters of alcohol and alcohol-containing products, equipment for its production, empty containers for bottling were seized from illegal trafficking. 68 criminal cases were initiated. Officials of internal affairs agencies imposed fines worth more than eight million rubles on the perpetrators, ”said Alexei Kasyanov.

The Secretary of the Interdepartmental Council added that in the regions and cities of the republic more than one and a half thousand initiative working groups had been created to identify illegal points of alcohol sale. Together with the police, 340 raids were carried out, more than one and a half thousand points of alcohol sale were liquidated.

“The taken measures help to reduce the number of poisonings with alcohol-containing products. According to the results of seven months of this year, this indicator amounted to 19.3 facts per 100 thousand of the population. For the same period last year, it amounted to 24.5 facts. During this period, almost half as many died from poisoning with alcohol-containing products - 113 people, last year - 212 people”, he stressed.

Acting Head of Bashkiria, Radiy Khabirov thanked all participants for the effective organization of work to identify counterfeit alcohol and stop its sale.

He also noted that the number of purchases of legal alcohol had increased because this business was brought out of the shadows.

Radiy Khabirov emphasized that this work should be continued here.