MOSCOW (AFP) — A Russian who said he discovered a condom wrapper and a suspicious rubber fragment in his bottle of beer is seeking almost two million dollars in compensation, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Pavel Pavlov, an editor at a Russian military publication, says he came across the "torn condom wrapper as well as a piece of rubber resembling a used condom in a bottle of Baltika-3," said his lawyer, Stalina Gurevich.
Pavlov said he had not been able to drink from bottles since coming across the surprise package in a bottle of Russia's popular Baltika brand in August 2006.
A fortnight ago he filed a compensation claim for 50 million rubles, or almost two million dollars (1.5 million euros), and is now waiting for a Moscow court to hear his claim, Gurevich told AFP.
Gurevich said experts had certified that the bottle was not opened after leaving the Baltika brewery in Saint Petersburg.
But Alexei Kedrin, deputy director of Baltika breweries, told AFP: "This is excluded because the level of equipment at the Russian factories is even higher than in Europe."
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