For those who've never been to Germany....recycling and deposit bottles is one of those things that takes a while to adjust to. Certain beverages (beer bottles, soda cans, soda plastic bottles) are deposit situations. Milk bottles, juice bottles and wine bottles....are NOT deposit situations.
This being strictly a German thing? Well...if you operate a drink shop, grocery, or restaurant....you are supposed to use the deposit bottles (bottled-up in Germany). The French, the Dutch, the Poles? They don't do this, and their bottles don't have the correct barcodes to signal the collection machine (in every grocery or drink shop) to pay back the deposit.
Well....N-TV had this update today....relating to the drink deposit business.
Bavarian cops had this delivery truck that they were looking over, and it attracted them to investigate.
Contents? Non-German drink bottles, with counterfeit deposit labels. 26,000 bottles.
Value? 6,500 Euro...more or less.
Serious trouble? Well....this is the comical side of the story. He got caught in 2019 for basically the same thing....counterfeit labels on drink bottles.
In that case, he actually got a suspended bust and didn't do any jail-time. This time? I would imagine that he's going to have a tough time explaining this.
What's he been doing since 2019? Well....just me guessing, but I would imagine that he's probably collected several thousand bottles monthly (from outside of the country), and easily cleared 2k to 3k monthly.
The thing about this line of crime....you need to just keep things reasonable and not attract attention with a whole delivery truck loaded down with bottles.
How will the guy explain to the inmates how he got convicted? Counterfeit drink bottles?
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