Source: Jacksonville.com
By Teresa Stepzinski
August 29, 2012
A Jacksonville liquor distributor was arrested Wednesday on 70 charges, most accusing him of hiding or moving booze with the intent to defraud the state of excise taxes.
Christopher John Eiras, 39, was jailed in lieu of $2.25 million bail, according to Sheriff's Office inmate records.
Eiras is chief executive officer and president of Liquor Group Wholesale Inc., a publicly traded Jacksonville-based company that distributes alcoholic beverages in about 30 states. He formed Liquor Group in 2001 in his garage after starting another company called Happy Vodka that imported vodka from Russia, a 2011 Times-Union profile showed.
A Times-Union message left on his company's telephone was not returned Wednesday night.
Eiras is charged with 61 counts of moving or concealing alcoholic beverages with intent to defraud the state of excise tax, eight counts of submitting false reports to avoid excise tax and one count of storing alcoholic beverages off the licensed site. He was booked into the Duval County jail shortly after 1 p.m., according to the records.
Details of his arrest were not immediately available.
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