Some 23,040 bottles of counterfeit alcohol were seized in a warehouse in Buca district in Izmir. One suspect was detained and judicial proceedings were launched against him.
The search, coordinated by the Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, also found 23,323 excise stamps and 46,490 labels alongside alcohol worth about 3.8 million lira. The operation was recorded as the largest seizure of illicit alcohol in the city this year by quantity.