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Chinese gang refill empty cans of Budweiser with beer from a plastic tub

Fraud revealed by television station report in central China

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Workers shown in the video putting beer into used cans. Photo: Handout
Mimi Lau

A TV station in central China has released a video showing a group of workers in a warehouse putting beer into used and recycled Budweiser cans.

The report shown on Hunan Economic Television shows women clearing old Budweiser cans from a cardboard box and then dumping them into a plastic container to refill them with beer.

The cans are then shown being resealed with a canning machine.

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Police are later shown inside the warehouse, with crates of beer stacked in the background.

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The report does not make clear where the warehouse is or if anybody has been arrested or charged for carrying out the apparent counterfeiting. But the officials in the video can be heard speaking Cantonese, which suggests that they may be from Guangdong province in southern China, where the dialect is spoken.

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