One For The Road

Thousands of litres of illegal alcohol destined for distribution across the Murcia and Alicante Province areas have been seized by agents of the Guardia Civil and the Tax Office. A Jumilla bar owner was arrested after inspectors found that he was substituting low-grade quality whiskey for the official brands, and investigations then led to a couple of drinks warehouses in Murcia and Villena in Alicante Province where they uncovered thousands of doctored spirit bottles and gallons of illegal hooch.

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The raid in Villena uncovered a hidden distillery within the warehouse where some five thousand litres of low-grade liquor was set to be poured into premium bottles, with six thousand bottles also impounded. Six thousand thousand litres of ethyl-alcohol was also seized from a warehouse in the Murcia area village of Patiño.