Around 29,759 litres of home-brewed liquor have been seized in Hanoi in the first 12 days of a citywide campaign against illicit alcohol.

Hanoi market surveillance officers examine the illegal alcohol.

The municipal Market Surveillance Department, under orders from Hanoi People’s Committee, began inspecting alcohol businesses across the capital from March 4. 

So far, of the 386 random inspections conducted, the department has detected 352 cases of violations, roughly 91 per cent of the inspections. 

Around VNĐ600 million (US$26,600) has been levied in fines. 

A large part of the cases involved illegal home-brewed alcohol, including Nguyen Van Khuong’s business in Nam Tu Liem District’s My Dinh 1 Ward, from where 1,090 litres of liquour were confiscated on March 9 after Khuong failed to produce documents to prove the origin of the drinks. 

On March 11, the department seized 3,800 litres of illegal liquor from an alcohol-making business of Lai Van Bang in Ha Village, Chuong My District. 

VNS