Employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region liquidated the shop for the production of counterfeit alcohol products. This is reported by the official representative of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia Irina Volk. Underground production was organized in Berezovsky. As a result of operational search activities, policemen, with the support of the OMON forces of Rosgvardia, found and seized more than 50 tons of ethyl alcohol and more than 250,000 bottles of vodka and cognac of various trademarks with signs of forgery. Here was also the production equipment, intended for bottling alcohol, stickers of labels and blockage of bottles. On the territory of the workshop 33 workers worked. The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk region, initiated a criminal case on the grounds of the crime provided for in Part 6 of Article 171. 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to preliminary information, the cost of seized alcoholic products exceeds 45 million rubles.