Fake Olympic vodka seized in Russia

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian prosecutors have confiscated thousands of bottles of illegal Olympic vodka, six years before the Winter Olympic Games come to Russia, an official said Wednesday.

Close to 14,000 bottles of vodka that used the Olympic name without permission were confiscated last month, according to a statement on the website for the prosecutor's office in the southern province of Krasnodar.

"It's the first such case" involving vodka production in the run-up to the winter Olympics to be held in Sochi in 2014, Yelena Kozyr, a spokesman for the Krasnodar prosecutors said on Wednesday.

The vodka, called Olympic, bore the Olympic symbol of five interlocking rings and the words Sochi 2014. The Black Sea coastal town of Sochi was chosen as the host of the...