The General Directorate of Security, Department of Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime (KOM) launched a simultaneous "Chain" operation in the morning against criminal groups that market the fake alcohol they produce via cargo. In the operation, which took place at 7 addresses throughout the country, especially in 641 provinces, there were detention warrants for 178 suspects.
The General Directorate of Security, Department of Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime continues its operations against smuggled/fake liquor, which threatens human health and causes tax losses for the state.
In 2022 operations carried out by KOM units in the first 8 months of 1.113, 778.166 liters and 275.923 bottles of smuggled/fake alcoholic beverages were seized, while 113 illegal alcoholic beverages were deciphered. However, with successful operations, a tax loss of approximately 400 million TL was avoided.
By KOM units, criminal groups in the illegal alcoholic beverage and alcohol production process; They produce fake alcoholic drinks by mixing the alcohol they obtained by distilling the raw materials they have obtained with distillation boilers with flavoring chemicals, while some criminal groups produce ethyl alcohol with the name of surface cleaner/disinfectant or in packages that do not have any inscription on it, and it is delivered to the buyers by cargo. In addition to the production of alcoholic beverages, action was taken upon the determination that criminal groups were selling illegal alcoholic beverages within the country by smuggling them from abroad.
Production and transportation chain deciphered
A long-term follow-up was carried out by the Department of Combating Smuggling and Organized Crime in order to decipher the chain from the production of smuggled/fake alcohol and alcoholic beverages to their transportation to the consumer. As a result of this follow-up, 7 criminal groups operating in 9 provinces were deciphered and the illegal production, supply and distribution chain was revealed. An operation with the code name "CHAIN" was initiated under the coordination of the KOM Department of the General Directorate of Security in order to decipher the criminal groups operating in the field of illegal/fake alcoholic beverages that caused deaths and to collapse the supply chain.
Alcoholic beverages within the scope of the operation; Searches were made at 7 addresses across the country, mainly in 641 provinces where criminal groups operate, in order to decipher the criminal groups that smuggled into the country, produced fakes and sent them by cargo. The process of detaining 178 suspects continues.
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