Jim, her's another piece for your Russia-Needs-HGRM file. It has the sound of a poor translation from Russian, too:
(COMTEX) Truck with 13 tonnes of alcohol seized in Stavropol area.
Truck with 13 tonnes of alcohol seized in Stavropol area.
STAVROPOL, south of European Russia, February 28 (Itar-Tass) - A heavy
truck was detained on the Kavkaz federal highway in the Stavropol
Territory. Its driver tried to smuggle 13 tonnes of alcohol. There were
30,000 small cylinders with the inscription "Hygienic lotion" in the
truck's body.
However, it turned out during the truck's inspection that all cylinders
were filled with alcohol. It was hauled from the North Caucasus to the
Moscow Region, disguised in such a cunning way.
Until recently, police exposed increasing attempts at smuggling
moonshined vodka on highways, running across the Stavropol Territory.
Some three million bottles of vodka were detained on highways of the
territory over the past and the start of the current year, Itar-Tass
learnt on Sunday at the Stavropol Territory police department.
According to the department, when control over haulage of vodka,
moonshined in the North Caucasus, was stiffened, dealers of illicit
vodka business try to change their tactics, increasingly hauling
alcohol rather than bottled moonshined vodka, disguised as products
having nothing to do with liquors.
Alcohol, smuggled to Russian central regions, is diluted and filled
into vodka bottles with flashy labels at underground vodka
mini-factories.
However, the police department said that underground "businessmen"
miscalculated, thinking that it is easier to disguise and carry
alcohol, since it was not very difficult to expose their tricks.
For instance a police check point stopped and inspected a heavy petrol
tank-car near the city of Nevinomyssk, Stavropol Territory. Police
officers found 800 plastic 3.8-litre canisters inside instead of
petrol. All of them were filled with alcohol.
Another 25-tonne tank-car was detained also near Nevinnomyssk.
Policemen who stopped the truck, were surprised that the tank-car was
filled with water up to the hatch, but the weight of the cargo was
somewhat less than 25 tonnes.
It turned out during an inspection that a smaller tank was installed
inside the tank-car, which contained 18 tonnes of raw alcohol rather
than water.
Policemen at a check point near the district city of Grachevka stopped
a Volga car. The back seat in the car looked quite ordinary. However,
when the seat was inspected, it turned out that a metal tank with 300
litres of alcohol was concealed under the seat cover.
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