Rustam Minnikhanov holds a meeting of the Council regulating the sale of alcohol and alcohol-containing products in the republic

On May 11, in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov with participation of Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin held a meeting of the Council regulating the sale of alcohol and alcohol-containing products in the republic for three months of the current year.

Making a keynote report at the meeting, Head of the regional State Alcohol Inspectorate Zhaudat Akhmetkhanov said the Inspectorate carried out inspections and issued 699 decisions on imposing fines for the sum of 7m 800 thousand roubles for violations of legislation in the sale of alcohol products among 699 economic entities of the republic in the first three months of the current year.  The largest number of violations were registered in Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk and Zelenodolsk region of the republic.

As many as 12,000 liters of alcohol and alcohol-containing products were seized from illegal trafficking during the inspections.