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A NORTHERN IRISH driver has been arrested and charged with illegal importation of rebated fuel following a customs raid.

23rd October 2003
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Page 17, 23rd October 2003 — A NORTHERN IRISH driver has been arrested and charged with illegal importation of rebated fuel following a customs raid.
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Customs officers seized a tanker, oil laundering equipment and 50.000 litres of fuel at Castleblaney, less than a mile south of the border with Northern Ireland.

The laundry could process 50,000 litres of diesel a week, which could cost the Exchequer up to £780,000 a year.

In a separate operation, a road fuel tanker containing 16,400 litres of petrol has been seized en-route from an illegal laundry in Donegal. Several people were questioned following the seizure and charges may follow.

Last month, Customs seized an oil laundry in Co M another border coun found three undergrou two rigid vehicles cc large tanks; a rigid tank 40ft bulk container.

All the vehicles, equip oil were seized.

There were no an according to Customs, i lions are continuing.