Authorities seized products worth more than Rwf2.6 billion and imposed fines of nearly Rwf360 million a part of a crackdown on illicit alcohol production and distribution, officials said.

In the past two weeks, law enforcement agencies inspected 246 production sites, shut down nearly 110 factories, arrested 56 suspects, according to Peter Karake, the Director General in charge of Crime Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB).