A 960,000 pounds bottle of vodka – claimed to be the most expensive in the world – has been stolen from a Copenhagen bar.

The Russo-Baltique bottle was on loan to a Danish collector when it was seized from the Café 33 bar in the Vesterbro district.

Bar owner Brian Ingerberg told TV2 Lorry: “I had loaned [the bottle] from Russia from something called the Dartz Factory, which makes the world’s most expensive cars and vodka. It has been part of my collection for six months, but not anymore.

“I am obviously very upset. It was the icing on the cake in my collection. Of the 1,200 bottles I have, this was a very special bottle.”

Russian luxury car maker Russo-Baltique is said to have created the vodka to commemorate the centenary of the company’s factory，The bottle -- which is worth US$1.3 million, according to its owner.

Ingerberg has released CCTV images of the thieves, speculating that the masked individuals pictured may have somehow obtained a key.

The theft has been reported to the police.

A week later, the $1.3 million bottle has been found abandoned at a construction site in Copenhagen, and it looks like somebody drank all the contents.

Even with the contents gone, the bottle is reportedly still worth $1.3 million, so nobody really cares that it was empty when police found it.

“I feel fantastic. The vodka god saved us,” Ingerberg said to Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.

“I will be sleeping with it under my pillow,” he joked.