The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives on Wednesday seized more than 2,000 empty bottles and 800 bottles of counterfeit alcoholic drinks.
Speaking on its X handle, DCI in a statement noted that the contraband was recovered following a joint operation spearheaded by sleuths from the DCI’s Economic and Commercial Crimes Unit alongside Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officials.
“The counterfeited drinks whose safety to consumers could not be immediately ascertained were packaged in branded bottles that are popular among local joints including, King Horse, Blue Star, King Vodka, Nest Vodka, Chrome Vodka, Blue Ice Vodka, Triple Ace, People Vodka among others,” read part of the statement.
“The sleuths also recovered 26,000 pieces of counterfeit KRA stamps, 1,080 liters of Ethanol, 2 sacks of well packaged assorted bottle tops and assorted labels of different alcoholic brands.”
Further, the Agency noted that before the raid, the DCI raided a residential property at Kayole’s Sasian Estate, where illegal consignments projected to evade taxes worth Ksh.4,978,400 were confiscated.
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“A seizure notice was issued to the owner of the property and the goods impounded as detectives investigate the source of the ethanol and the fake KRA stamps,”
