The next time you wake up with an awful hangover, it may be because you’ve been drinking some shitty liquor. Literally.
Police in Jieyang, Guangdong, recently busted a fake liquor syndicate, arresting 11 and seizing over RMB10 million (HKD12.5 million) worth of fake Cognac and baijiu (Chinese wine), reports EJ Insight.
The police said that the counterfeit luxury liquors were made inside a warehouse toilet, where the levels of hygiene were “highly disturbing”.
(Obviously, this case would have been no big deal if the liquor was made in highly clean, well-maintained toilets.)
The counterfeit brands included the likes of Maotai, Louis XIII de Rémy Martin Grande Champagne Cognac, Hennessy XO Cognac and Rémy Martin VSOP Cognac.
It was costing the workers less than RMB100 (HKD125) to make each bottle, which middlemen then reselling them for up to RMB10,000 (HKD12,500) to gullible hotels and nightclubs.
According to the factory workers, the bottles may have ended up in hotels and nightclubs in Shanghai, Tianjin, Hebei, Guizhou, Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
Maybe the first thing Hong Kong partygoers should do is stop spending HKD12,500 on bottles of fancy Cognac.
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