Two foreigners charged with selling fake beer

POLICE have arrested and charged two foreigners in Port Moresby with selling fake beer.
According to the Police Task Force Team, these men (named) were from the same province in China.
Officer-in-charge of Policing the Police Task Force Team (PPTFT), Apollos Terry, said his team began investigating the matter when an officer of Eliseo, a wholesale business in Port Moresby, laid an official complaint with his team.
“The company was concerned that it was named by SP Brewery in a newspaper advertisement as being one of the distributors of the fake beer,” Terry said.
The PPTFT secured search warrants for a number of properties within the NCD but came up empty-handed.
On Dec 18, the PPTFT was tipped off that a suspect was selling fake SP beer at Sogeri in Central.
Police picked up a local suspect and he led the team to where one of the Chinese was residing with his Papua New Guinean wife.
Police said the foreigner admitted to them that he received 50 cartons of fake beer from another foreigner and sold them at K50 per carton.
Terry said both their passports and work permits had been surrendered to police.
He said additional charges were also expected to be laid under other laws, including the PNG Customs Act.