Russia’s embassy to the DPRK on Tuesday rejected claims made in a recent report by the United Nations Panel of Experts (PoE) concerning a shipment of 90,000 bottles of vodka said to be bound for North Korea.

The statement, carried on the embassy’s Facebook page, comes in response to a section in the PoE’s mid-term sanctions report, released last week.

That section detailed the February 21 seizure by the Netherlands of a shipment of “90,000 bottles of Russian vodka for a total of USD 27,125.”

The goods, defined by the Dutch government and the European Union as constituting luxury goods prohibited