A joint military investigation team in Shandong Province, China, recently discovered fake alcohol with various names containing the word “gun.”
According to Taiwan’s Central News Agency on the 4th (local time), a joint military investigation team in Shandong Province recently discovered fake alcohol named “Central Security Bureau Hospitality”, “Central Military Commission Secretariat Hospitality”, and “military Mao Tai”.
Fake liquor costs 3 yuan. However, fake liquor like this was sold for up to 4,000 yuan. In other words, the liquor was 1,500 times more profitable.
China’s state-run central CCTV also reported that it recently found a group suspected of producing and selling special alcoholic beverages under the so-called ‘military’ brand while investigating the counterfeiting of military uniforms.
The military, district, and public security bureau in Shandong Province formed a joint civilian-military investigation team to find out the manufacturer by finding clues through the suspect’s delivery address and chat records. The factory that hit the scene was packed with baiju liquor boxes, bottles of liquor and packaging stickers containing military insignia. Baiju, which cost only about 3 yuan to manufacture, put up various military logos and sold them as “special princesses” for hundreds or thousands of yuan.
They added pigments for various years according to the customer’s needs. They were sold with differences such as making it a little yellow if it is a 30-year-old and a little milder if it is a 15-year-old. Special alcoholic beverages with pigments do not meet the health license requirements and can cause headaches, edema of the brain, and alcoholism after drinking.
SOPHIA KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
