Vodka

A court in the town of Iraklio, Crete, on Thursday handed a 44-year-old father a suspended sentence of two years and three months over repeated incidents of physical abuse against his 13-year-old daughter. 

Spirits producer Vinprom Peshtera (VP) Brands International has identified Kenya as its launch pad for expanding into the rest of Africa.

Bulgarian distiller, popularly known for Flirt Vodka, seeks to revitalize its market presence and has announced partnership with leading regional alcoholic and soft drinks distributors Mohan's Oysterbay Drinks Ltd.

Every year, Forbes identifies 30 of the brightest and most promising game-changers under the age of 30 in 20 different industries and the newest list of 600 people, published on Monday, contains nine names of youthful visionaries from the Balkans.

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It was meant to be a collector's secret, but someone knew the secret, stole the secret and, it seems, drank the secret: what the owner calls "the most expensive vodka bottle in the world."/ NY Times

The bottle was created by Dartz Motorz, a car manufacturer in Riga, Latvia, and fitted with an original 1912 leather ribbon from the company's first Monte Carlo rally car.

A bottle of vodka claimed to be worth over a million euros was stolen from a collection in Copenhagen in the early hours of Tuesday, says the owner of the collection.

The expensive spirit was lifted from the collection at the Café 33 bar in the Vesterbro district of the Danish capital, the bar's owner told TV2 Lorry.

People in Bulgaria buy less and less alcohol, Eurostat data show. Last year, households in Bulgaria allocated an average of 1.6% of their incomes for alcoholic drinks.

EU officials in Kabul, whose nationality is not specified, are accused of selling alcohol to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan where it is forbidden, the EU said on Sunday, quoted by the France.

1658 liters of alcohol, traded and stored in violation of the Excise Duties and Tax Warehouses Act, were detained by customs officers during inspections in the Black Sea area for only two days. Two separate inspections were carried out - at a hotel, as well as in a restaurant and tax warehouse, the Customs Agency reported.

Economic crimes officers have arrested 22 people and seized 12 tons of ethanol in a crackdown on two gangs that supplied dozens of Greek bars with counterfeit spirits, the Greek Police announced on Monday.

Gendarmerie forces on April 10 raided a wedding hall that included an underground bootleg alcohol plant in Istanbul's Başakşehir district, detaining five suspects, Doğan News Agency has reported.  
 
Thousands of liters of bootleg alcohol stored in industrial bottles and ready for delivery across Turkey was seized during the raid.