Liquor destroyed in Cirebon

Liquor destroyed in Cirebon

CIREBON, Jawa Barat: Hundreds of thousands of bottles of
alcoholic drinks worth around Rp 0.5 billion were destroyed by
Cirebon Police in West Java.

Cirebon Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Musyafak said the illegal
beverages had mostly been confiscated from two warehouses in
Mundu subdistrict, and that the owner, Usman Effendi, had been
arrested.

"He has been named as a suspect and is being detained for
further questioning," he said on Thursday after presiding over
the breaking of the bottles and burning of the liquor.

The alcohol was packed in 27,250 boxes consisting of between
10 and 20 bottles each.

Musyafak said his office would continue to crack down on
illegal alcoholic drinks so as to reduce their distribution in
Cirebon and neighboring Indramayu. --JP