VODKA WINDSCREEN CLEANER
February 1st, 2003
BY MARK ROWE AND KEITH NUTHALLA RUSSIAN entrepreneur, Oleg Udolin, is making a tidy living out of making windscreen-cleaning fluid out from confiscated contraband vodka. In a neat reversal of the traditional Russian penchant for drinking anti-freeze, the Moscow region man's company Spiritprompererabotka has been extracting ethyl alcohol under licence from bottles of vodka confiscated by Russia's police and customs forces. So far he has converted more than 20 million litres into the industrial alcohol-based cleaner and clients include BP service stations and the ...
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