CUSTOMS CLAMP DOWN ON FUEL LAUNDERING IN GALWAY

Date Published: 30-Dec-2011

There has been a significant increase in fuel laundering seizures in Galway.

Over the past three years, over 172 thousand litres of illegal fuel have been seized by customs officials around the county.

In 2009, over 59 thousand 400 litres of laundered oil were seized in Galway in three separate operations carried out in April in May.

In one of the operations, an Irish registered oil tanker was in the process of discharging the fuel into underground storage an an unidentified retail premises.

This was followed by two additional seizures in December 2010 when over 73 thousand litres were recovered - one of these in a premises near Tuam.

So far this year 40 thousand litres of fuel have been recovered.