Sri Lanka, Jan. 16 -- The main man behind the entire distribution network of beer and soft alcoholic beverages to over 100 unlicensed pubs, restaurants and hotels of the country's 'most happening' tourist destination, Ella was identified when the Colombo Excise flying squad seized a lorry full of booze over the weekend.

With the detection of a lorry transporting over 1,000 bottles of beer and cider in Ella, the Excise Bureau of Special Operations (BSO) officials from Colombo uncovered a novel method of distributing liquor to hundreds of unlicensed tourist pubs within the purview of the authorities.

Following a lengthy probe, the Excise BSO officials took into custody a lorry transporting booze in Ella and found that the driver did not p...