Контрабандный спирт перекачивался из Казахстана в Кыргызстан

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  • Illegal #vodka #pipeline discovered in Kyrgyzstan
    http://www.harpers.co.uk/news/illegal-vodka-pipeline-discovered-in-kyrgyzstan/348856.article

    Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have shut off an illegal eight inch-wide tube being used to smuggle illicit alcohol between #Kazakhstan for a third of mile under the Chu River into #Kyrgyzstan (...) thousands of litres of alcohol were smuggled between the two countries

    ça c’est de l’info pour @reka et @simplicissimus

    personne ne semble dire où passait exactement ce tuyau, posé dans le lit de la rivière

    • Merci !

      L’affaire est traité par le commissariat de Tokmok, le tuyau est apparemment long de 500 mètres et passait non loin d’un poste de douanes… On n’a toujours pas arrêté qui que ce soit…

      Info de Tengrinews du 15/08/13

      Контрабандный спирт перекачивался из Казахстана в Кыргызстан. Преступность. Tengrinews.kz
      http://tengrinews.kz/crime/kontrabandnyiy-spirt-perekachivalsya-iz-kazahstana-v-kyirgyizstan-239863

      Пограничники пресекли контрабанду спирта из Казахстана в Кыргызстан, передает корреспондент Tengrinews.kz со ссылкой на государственную пограничную службу Кыргызстана.

      Сотрудники заставы «Токмок» обнаружили шланг, через который перекачивался спирт. Он был протянут по дну реки Чу через государственную границу. На дне реки контрабандисты установили обрезки рельсов, к которым прикрепили шланг. Общая длина шланга - 500 метров, его диаметр - 20 сантиметров.

      Localisation de Tokmok :
      https://maps.google.com/maps?q=chu+river,+kirgizistan%3B+tokmok&hl=fr&ll=42.900113,75.2948&spn=

    • Un article très complet sur le business de la Vodka au Kirghizistan

      Kyrgyzstan: Vodka is no Elixir for Budget Woes | EurasiaNet.org
      http://www.eurasianet.org/node/67163

      Vodka is already a major employer – at least 2,000 people work in the bottling plant of Ayu, the local market leader. But trade in fake excise stamps is said to be flourishing, meaning the government is missing out on much-needed revenue. According to the Economics Ministry, the sector contributed just $7.5 million in taxes last year. Officials estimate that 72 percent of Kyrgyz vodka is distilled in the shadows and goes untaxed.
      The heartbeat of local vodka is undoubtedly Ayu, producers of Shpilka (Stiletto), a brand enjoying moderately successful sales in the United States. Local media outlets portray the firm’s ultimate beneficiary, MP Sharshenbek Abdykerimov, as a kind of Kyrgyz Rockefeller, capable, as the local newspaper De Facto wrote last year, of “finding a common language with any government” to protect and expand his business interests.
      (…)
      At the beginning of this year, six of nine domestic producers lost their licenses when they failed to meet the minimum 100,000-decaliter annual requirement introduced in 2009 for vodka producers. Some media have accused the family of the former president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, of having a hand in the legislation, and of colluding with major producers to drive smaller rivals out of business.

      Pressure was “much worse in the Bakiyev period,” recalls Mirlan Sadykov, director of Alsuu. Sadykov accuses his competitors of having “state inspectors check on other businesses and paying newspapers to write dirty articles about other vodka companies” prior to the riots that ushered out the Bakiyev family in 2010.

      The vodka wars are not entirely over, says Kurenkeyev of The Association of Alcohol Producers, noting that producers of other liquors do not face any minimum production requirements. The sector is still defined by a “small group of men playing cat and mouse,” he told EurasiaNet.org. “The losers are the state and the market.”

    • Enfin, un article de 2008 de Courrier International recensant plusieurs précédents transfrontaliers…

      Vodka : l’ivresse des profondeurs | Courrier international
      http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2008/09/25/vodka-l-ivresse-des-profondeurs

      [2008] Onze personnes accusées d’avoir construit un pipeline à vodka de 1,6 km à la frontière russo-estonienne ont été déférées devant la justice estonienne. Quelque 6 200 litres d’alcool distillé illégalement auraient transité par cet assemblage de tubes de plastique installé entre les villes de Narva, en Estonie, et d’Ivangorod, en Russie.
      (…)
      En 2006, un pipeline encore plus long – 2,5 km – avait été découvert en Estonie.
      (…)
      Les contrebandiers estoniens ne sont pas des pionniers en matière d’alcooloduc : en 2004, l’on a dé­couvert un pipeline de 3 kilomètres servant à acheminer de la vodka entre la Biélorussie et la Lituanie, rappelle le journal en ligne Iantarnyi Kraï.

    • SCOOP : Djokhar Tarnaev est né à Tokmok il y a 20 ans. Il y a vécu ainsi que son frère Tamerlan jusqu’à l’âge de 8 ans, avant de faire un bref séjour à Makhatchkala au Daguestan et d’émigrer aux États-Unis.

      Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_and_Tamerlan_Tsarnaev

      As children, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar lived in Tokmok in Kyrgyzstan. In 2001, the family moved to Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the Russian Federation.

      Note : cette vidéo du Huffpost (sans informations nouvelles et sans images locales) présente Tokmok comme le terminus du pipeline.
      http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/entertainment/celebrity/authorities-shut-down-vodka-pipeline-517906844