Its capacity was from 25 to 30 tons per week. According to the press service of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, law enforcement officers conducted 11 searches in the region, as a result of which 60 785 liters of alcohol were seized.

Approximate cost of seized counterfeit is almost 9.8 million hryvnia. The car was also confiscated with an estimated cost of 270 thousand hryvnia, 200 thousand hryvnia in national and foreign currency, sulfuric acid, industrial plant for the production of surrogate alcohol, filters, hoses, pumps, meters, plastic containers of five and 200 liters each, as well as another accessories, - told the press service, adding that the total value of the seized was over one million hryvnia.

At the same time, the agency explained that the manufacture and sale of alcohol was organized by local residents who produced products by industrial purification of technical alcohol-containing liquid with sulfuric acid.

According to the GFS information, the finished products were sold by wholesale consignments to consumers in Chernigov and Sumy regions, which later used it as raw materials for illicit manufacturing of alcoholic beverages.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the SBU in the Kherson region carried out the seizure of a large number of counterfeit vodka. The cost of seized products - about one and a half million Ukrainian hryvnia.