Police confiscate 175,218 litres of illicit alcohol

 APR 25 2018

Sri Lanka Police report that the Special Task Force (STF) had confiscated 175, 218 litres of illegally manufactured alcohol from January 2015 to 22 April 2018.

The value of the amounts thus confiscated was over Rs 23 million; from January to December 2015–51,546 litres had been confiscated during 223 raids. 

Police said that 261 suspects had been arrested at the time.

In 2016 – the STF had seized 36,369 litres in 227 raids and 276 suspects were taken into custody.

Last year, the STF seized over 57,770 litres during 679 raids and 727 suspects were taken into custody, while this year from January till the third week of April, 29,524 litres was seized during 360 raids, and 361 suspects had been taken into custody.