Sri Lanka, July 9 -- A Criminal Investigation Department probe is currently underway over a large seizure of counterfeit liquor bottles recently from Malambe had the Excise Department approved security sticker pasted on the bottle necks, thus giving the impression whether the perpetrators have forged the sticker too.

However, the mystery deepened as the preliminary inquiries had revealed that the security stickers pasted on the counterfeit liquor bottles were not fake but genuine as issued by the Department of Excise.

The police recently raided a residence in Sudarshana Mawatha in Malambe and seized 18, 575 quarter bottles filled with a local branded arrack containing 3, 345 litres. Several suspects who were running the operations of t...