Cenk Uygur
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Man Caught Smuggling Beer As Pepsi Cans
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November 28, 2015
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3:56Now PlayingSaudi Arabia has very strict laws against alcohol. There is a large black market for alcoholic beverages in the country. A man was recently caught smuggling cans of Heineken and disguising them as Pepsi. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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"Legally, alcohol is banned in Saudi Arabia. In reality, however, there are people in the country who drink.
If you're wondering how exactly they actually get that alcohol, consider the multiple reports in the Saudi press today that describe how the Saudi authorities at border with United Arab Emirates caught a man with 48,000 cans of Heineken – all disguised as Pepsi cola.
“A truck carrying what first seemed to be normal cans of the soft drink Pepsi was stopped and after the standard process of searching the products, it became clear that the alcoholic beers were covered with Pepsi’s sticker logos,” Al Batha border General Manager Abdulrahman al-Mahna was quoted as saying, according to Al Arabiya News."
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