The UB Post-Leading English News

Sh.Monkhbat, Director of Asian Wolf, the company that made the vodka, and his wife Ts.Selenge, are now in a pre-trial detention center. Their arrest was delayed as Monkhbat himself was in hospital recovering from poisoning, and Selenge was taking care of him there. Monkhbat told a newspaper that on New Year’s Eve he and two others had drunk the vodka he had produced. Both these two died shortly after.

Monkhbat told police that he had transferred all his legal power and responsibility to his wife as he hoped to soon become a public officer at the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Police have also arrested two customs officers on the Zamin-Uud border checkpoint and J.Lkhamchinjav, an accountant at the Ulaanbaatar Equipment company, in connection with the illegal import of the chemical.
Media reports say that close relatives of Selenge were involved in arranging deals to allow vodka production companies to buy chemicals.

Continuing their search for all the vodka distilled illegally with the toxic methanol, the Criminal Police Department this week found 40,000 bottles bearing suspect labels like Nunjig, Tsatsal, and Naiman Sharga in a storeroom of a distilling company, Setgelshgui Tergel. The owner of the company in Songinokhairkhan District in Ulaanbaatar admitted to hiding the bottles under the floor.
The Government has already warned the general public against drinking toxic vodka and to surrender any suspect stocks with them.