VodkaMOSCOW, Jan 29Senators Anatoly Artamonov, Sergei Ryabukhin and Vadim Dengin submitted to the State Duma a package of two bills to speed up the procedure for the destruction of seized illegal ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products. storage in a specialized organization (JSC «Rosspirtprom») for more than three years, as well as the expiration date of which has expired. Corresponding changes are made to the law «On state regulation of the production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products and on limiting the consumption (drinking) of alcoholic products» and to the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation. A similar mechanism is now provided for by the current legislation for the destruction of products prohibited for import into Russia, the so-called «sanctioned» goods, the developers remind. More than 25 million liters of illegal ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products have been stored for more than three years at the sites of a specialized organization. Moreover, more than 70 million rubles of budgetary funds are spent monthly on paying for the pre-trial storage of property throughout the country. At the same time, most of the products are stored for several years, pending a corresponding court decision. budgetary funds for the storage of property, and secondly, it will speed up the process of destroying a liquid dangerous to the life and health of citizens,» the authors of the bills believe. Putin signed a law increasing fines for the circulation of unmarked alcohol
