More than 1,000 cases of sale of alcohol-containing liquids have been initiated in the Chita region

Since the beginning of this year, 1022 criminal cases have been initiated in the Chita region on the facts of illegal sale of alcohol-containing liquids, of which 795 have already been sent to court, RIA Novosti was told on Thursday in the press service of the regional prosecutor's office.

The prosecutor's office also noted that an audit of compliance with the legislation on the circulation of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products was carried out and many violations were revealed during it.

According to Alexander Trukhin, Prosecutor of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Federal Legislation of the Regional Prosecutor's Office, the most common among them are the sale of alcoholic beverages without certificates, expired, with old excise stamps. Many individual entrepreneurs continue to retail alcohol.

In fifty urban and rural settlements of the region, local authorities have not adopted legal acts on the establishment of territories adjacent to places of mass gathering of citizens and locations of sources of increased danger, where the retail sale of alcoholic products with an ethyl alcohol content of more than 15% is prohibited.

The Baleisky inter-district prosecutor found that the administrations of rural settlements show indifference to violations of the legislation on the circulation of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products. Including, having information about persons illegally selling alcohol-containing products, they do not send it to law enforcement and regulatory authorities.

"The activities of Rospotrbnadzor and the state executive authorities of the Chita region in the administrative prosecution of persons violating the law in the sphere of circulation of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products also deserve a negative assessment," the regional prosecutor's office noted.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, as a result of the audit, 12 illegal regulatory legal acts on the circulation of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products were revealed. 112 submissions were made to eliminate violations of the law and 28 warnings were issued about the inadmissibility of violations of the law. 10 applications were sent to the courts, 34 individuals and legal entities were brought to administrative responsibility according to the prosecutors' submissions, 33 more similar submissions are under consideration. In total, 250 violations were identified in the field of compliance with the legislation on the circulation of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products.

"The prosecutor's office of the region made proposals to the state authorities of the Chita region to include a number of law enforcement measures in the concept of the development of anti-alcohol policy in the region," the press service added.