The police have arrested and charged two men who knowingly distributed a
methanol mixture that caused poisonings of at least 67 people in the Czech
Republic, Police President Martin Červíček and state prosecutor Roman
Kafka announced Monday at a press conference. The main suspect – a
forty-two year-old man from Ostrava - made a full confession on Friday
night saying that he and his accomplice prepared a lethal methanol and
ethanol mixture that they then distributed through a middleman to liquor
producers. According to Mr Kafka, the main motivation for his actions was
financial gain. Police President Červíček warned that 15,000 liters of
noxious methanol-laced alcohol had entered distribution, but not all of it
has been accounted for yet. Charges have been brought against 42 people in
connection to the distribution of methanol-laced liquor, which has killed
25 people in the Czech Republic. Twenty two of them are currently in jail.