Weskussers wat dalk gedink het hulle verbeel hulle dat hul geliefkoosde drankie Saterdagaand om die braaivleisvuur of by \u2019n kroeg nie die afgelope tyd \u201cheeltemal reg\u201d smaak nie, sal verstom wees om te weet dat dit dalk onwettig verspreide, vervalste drank was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Uitgebreide drankvervalsing- en verspreidingsnetwerk is verlede week in Piketberg oopgevlek wat tot die inhegtenisneming van vyf mans, onder wie twee Zimbabwi\u00ebrs en twee Chinese, gelei het. Die polisie het op drank van meer as R8 miljoen beslag gel\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens kapt. Tania Helfrich, \u2019n woordvoerder vir die Weskus-polisie, is benewens die onwettige drank, drankkartonne, bottels, doppies en botteleringstoerusting ook op onwettige Bitcoin-masjiene beslag gel\u00ea. Talle le\u00eb, gebruikte bottels is ook op die toneel gekry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die drank is gebottel onder huishoudelike drankhandelsname soos onder meer Bonne Esperance, Russian Bear, Stretton\u2019s, Tommy Ballards, Viceroy, Wellington, Jameson, Richelieu, Jagermeister, Bell\u2019s, Grant\u2019s, Bols, Klipdrift, Cape Hope, Gordon\u2019s, Highland Queen, Laborie, Olof Bergh, Montego, Malibu en Gentleman Jack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op foto\u2019s is dit duidelik dat dit moeilik is om te onderskei tussen di\u00e9 vervalste bottels drank en wettig gebottelde drank op drankwinkels se rakke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die kleur van die drank kan egter verskil omdat dit in \u2019n oop opslaanswembad in \u2019n gewone stoor \u00f3f vermeng \u00f3f verdun is. Die inhoudsvlakke kan ook verskil omdat die bottels met die hand gevul is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Suid-Afrika voeg drankvervalsers dikwels metanol by. Dit is \u2019n industri\u00eble oplosmiddel wat in teenvries- en verfstroopmiddels, vernis en naellakverwyderaar te vinde is. Sulke chemikalie\u00eb kan lei tot blindheid, orgaanversaking en selfs die dood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Helfrich het die Piketberg-polisie twee dae onverpoosd gespook om die drade van die uitgebreide web bymekaar te bring, maar uiteindelik is Blessward Kawowdera (31) en Osweld Mtemajri (33) van Zimbabwe saam met Notime Mutazu (28), Chen Ping (38) en Xialong Chen (57) in hegtenis geneem. Hulle staan tereg op aanklagte van die vervaardiging van alkohol sonder \u2019n lisensie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel die inhegtenisnemings uit knap polisiespeurwerk spruit, het Helfrich verduidelik presies waar en aan wie die vervalste drank gelewer is, nog ondersoek word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Waar die beskuldigdes die handelsmerk-bottels en -kartondose met strepieskodes en al bekom het, is nog \u2019n vraag wat beantwoord moet word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michele-Francis Padayachee, uitvoerende hoof van GS1 Suid-Afrika, \u2019n strepieskode-verskaffer, het in April aan die Krugersdorp News <\/i>ges\u00ea navorsing dui daarop dat tot een uit elke vyf bottels wyn wat in geriefswinkels te koop is, vervals kan wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy raai verbruikers aan om slegs drank te koop by betroubare kleinhandelaars wat net produkte aanhou met wettige, bevestigbare produk-identifikasie-strepieskodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die KWV het in \u2019n verklaring n\u00e1 navrae van Weslander<\/i> ges\u00ea die produksie van vervalste drank en geassosieerde verspreidingsnetwerke is \u2019n groot probleem in Suid-Afrika. Hulle was egter nie bewus van hierdie onwettige dranksindikaat nie en wens die Piketberg-polisie geluk met hul knap speurwerk wat tot die inhegtenisnemings gelei het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie KWV verwelkom verdere ondersoek deur die polisie om soortgelyke onwettige bedrywighede met wortel en tak uit te roei.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vier afsonderlike sake is teen die verdagtes aanhangig gemaak, waarvoor hulle reeds op Vrydag 6 Oktober in Piketberg-landdroshof verskyn het. Die saak is uitgestel tot vandag (Donderdag 12 Oktober), en hulle word tot dan aangehou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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