Producer of fake foreign alcoholic drinks arrested after 10 years
The Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested a 48-year-old man who has been producing and selling fake popular local and international alcoholic beverage brands to the public for the past 10 years. Yaw Nambu Dosu operating under the business name Nambu Distilleries, claimed he and one other person who is at large, have been producing alcoholic brands such as Black and Red Labels, Bacardi, Lion Aromatic Schnapps, Smirnoff, Lord Jack, Sir Edwards, Bony Black and Lord Kingsley among others. Police retrieved from his premises at Ejisu, 48 boxes of the said alcoholic beverages, which are suspected to be highly harmful. Assorted counterfeit of popular local and foreign alcoholic drinks retrieved from his premises and said to be harmful. Dosu told investigators he has been producing the brands using ethanol, water and colour. He sells his counterfeit products to Accra, Kumasi and their environs “The content of the harmful alcoholic beverage will be sent for forensic analysis,” Police ...