Overview

• Slantsevsky City Court placed a suspect in pretrial detention for one month in the lethal surrogate alcohol case.
• Regional prosecutors said eight people were detained after searches in Slantsevsky and Volosovsky districts and more than 1,000 liters of surrogate alcohol were seized.
• Police later detained five additional alleged distributors, according to Interior Ministry representative Irina Volk.
• Investigators opened a criminal case under part 3 of Article 109 of the Russian Criminal Code for causing death by negligence to two or more persons.
• Prosecutors are working to trace the source of the illicit alcohol, and at least one person remains hospitalized in serious condition.