Arab News
DAMMAM, May 29: The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the Eastern Province discovered yesterday a clandestine distillery run by three Asian expatriates in the Al-Khalidiah district of Dammam. Commission members seized in a predawn raid 6,000 liquor bottles ready for sale at an estimated cost of SR150,000.
The arrested people are suspected to have been running the distillery in a two-story villa. The commission, which raided the villa with the help of a police patrol, destroyed the liquor and the barrels, stoves and gas cylinders, with which the contraband was distilled.
Last month the commission had unearthed a distillery in the same district where they found 1,200 bottles of liquor. The bootleggers sold the liquor at SR25 a bottle, a commission member said.