NANSHAN police busted a criminal ring in Guizhou Province allegedly involving in making and selling counterfeit Chinese liquor Moutai on Tuesday.

    Four suspects, including two in Guizhou, were detained and 846 bottles of fake Moutai liquor were confiscated.

    Nanshan police received a report in August from a local resident surnamed Yan who claimed to have bought fake Moutai liquor from a shop in Buji, Longgang District. Yan bought 10 bottles, each costing 680 yuan (US$98.55), from the shop, but his friends had headaches after drinking the liquor.

    Police arrested two suspects, Zhang and Liu, in the Buji shop and then followed clues to Guizhou and arrested the other two suspects in October who manufactured and provided fake liquor to the shop in Shenzhen.

    The fake liquor costs 80 yuan per bottle, and the two suspects in Guizhou, Zhang and Li, sold them at the wholesale price of 100 yuan to shops in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Heilongjiang, Hainan and Tianjin. The liquor was sold at retail shops for up to 1,000 yuan per bottle. (Han Ximin)