Dissidents turn their attention elsewhere as Revenue crush IRA fuel smuggling ring
There has been a significant decrease in the number of fuel laundries operational on the island of Ireland.
There has been a significant decrease in the number of fuel laundries operational on the island of Ireland.
Finance Minister Michael Noonan says he’s satisfied significant progress has been made in tackling the problem.
Thirty-one oil laundries were detected and closed down.
One of the buildings in Portlaw was full of hay bales which burned through the night.
A new NESC report also found that environmental policy is at times “guesswork without adequate data” from informed sources.
The authority is now moving to peruse those with outstanding Household Charge payments.
The young men, aged 19 and 20 years old, will appear before Navan District Court this morning.
The operation was found near the town of Portlaw, some 19km west of Waterford City, earlier today.
Louth County Council has begun the tendering process for the clean-up of the site, which was discovered two years ago.
A massive operation examining the activities of a criminal gang got underway today.
Nineteen searches were carried out at premises associated with a known criminal gang.
The current marker system has been deemed ineffective as criminals use acid to wash the dye from the agri-fuel.
The plant in Dundalk had the capacity to launder some 18 million litres of fuel a year with a potential loss of €9 milllion to the exchequer.
The Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association says new licence structures will cost them time and money.
No arrests were carried out by the PSNI.
Retail Ireland says one-eighth of all diesel sold in Ireland is illegal, while one in six people have made illegal downloads.
Representatives from the Revenue, the Dept of Environment and farm and retail groups will be at today’s meeting.
Armed gardaí took part in the raids on ten filling stations in Dublin, Galway and Louth.
Retail Ireland says illegal fuel laundering to remove the dye from agricultural diesel is costing the state €150m in lost tax revenues annually.
As many as 150 petrol stations around the country are selling illicit fuel, one TD has claimed.
Two other people remain in custody in connection with the significant seizure of laundered fuel yesterday.
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The cross-border operation involved coordinated searches in several counties today, culminating in the seizure of 140,000 litres of laundered fuel.
A team of environmental personnel entered a site near Dundalk today to search for evidence of illegal practices.
Driver took a wrong turn into south Armagh, where the truck was hijacked and subsequently set alight yesterday evening.
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Almost 40,000 litres of laundered fuel were found by customs officers and armed gardaí at the large plant in Castleblayney.