All entrepreneurs in Chechnya officially abandoned the sale of alcohol after a meeting with Daudov

All license holders for the sale of alcohol in Chechnya renounced their permits after a meeting with the speaker of the parliament of the republic, Magomed Daudov, reports “Caucasus. Realities."

In total, there were 14 holders of such licenses in the republic, working from 08:00 to 10:00. Director of the Department of Economics, Trade and Consumer Market of the Ministry of Economic Development of Chechnya, Magomed Mustafinov, in a conversation with the Kyrgyz Republic, confirmed the data on the refusal of licenses.

“After the meeting with Daudov, almost all owners of stores selling wine and vodka products refused their issued licenses. According to our information, the authorities promise to help them repurpose their business. This was confirmed by the director of the Department of Economics, Trade and Consumer Market of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Magomed Mustafinov. Now this issue, according to him, is under discussion,” writes the Kyrgyz Republic.

The meeting took place on November 28, after seven people were killed in a car accident . The culprit of the accident was presumably the drunken Alam Khodzhaev, who drove into the oncoming lane.

“Immediately after this accident, all male relatives of Khojaev left the republic. As the remaining family members assure, they did this on their own initiative,” the publication notes.

Chechnya is regularly ranked as the Russian region with the lowest levels of alcohol consumption. The chief narcologist of the republic, Muslim Dalsaev, explained this by the fact that the majority of the population of Chechnya are Muslims.

Restrictions on the sale of alcohol in Chechnya were officially introduced in 2009, when the head of the region, Ramzan Kadyrov, signed a decree establishing that alcohol could only be sold for two hours in the morning, and a complete ban was in effect during Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr. Kadyrov signed a decree “On limiting the time of retail sale of alcoholic products with an ethyl alcohol content of more than 15 percent.” The prosecutor of the republic, Mikhail Savchin, then noted to Rossiyskaya Gazeta that the document does not contradict Russian legislation, since regions have the right to independently determine the time at which sales are permitted alcohol.

As wrote Komsomolskaya Pravda , due to difficulties with the legal sale of alcohol in Chechnya, underground trade in alcohol is widespread. In January 2015, employees of establishments where they could drink at night were brought to the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. Before this, Kadyrov insisted that there was no “prohibition” in the region.