Overview

• The Oktyabrsky District Court in St. Petersburg ordered a 44-year-old man, described as the de facto head of the Trubnikov Bor warehouse, jailed on accusations of organizing illegal alcohol distribution.
• The Investigative Committee reports 45 deaths linked to methanol-laced surrogate alcohol across multiple districts of Leningrad Oblast.
• Two additional suspects tied to the company that stored seized spirits at the Tosnensky District warehouse were detained in Moscow, which investigators identify as the primary distribution source.
• Authorities are pursuing charges under Part 3 of Article 238 for producing and selling unsafe products causing multiple deaths and have opened a Part 3 Article 293 negligence probe into regulatory bodies.
• Initial fatalities were recorded on September 26 in Slantsevsky District, with courts earlier remanding 13 defendants and a separately accused woman from Kingiseppsky District.