Fifth diesel laundry closed
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II Irish police have arrested three men following a raid on a diesel laundering plant in County Monaghan, close to the border with Northern Ireland, on 2 June.
This is the fifth such plant to be closed down in the past nine months, each of which could process rebated green diesel into white diesel at the rate of 200,000 litres a week.
At the latest plant police seized 36,000 litres of laundered diesel, three road tankers and a range of machinery.
Laundered fuel is sold to unsuspecting drivers through a network of filling stations, netting 300% profit for the gangs involved. But Irish Road Haulage Association President Gerry McMahon warns: it causes a problem with injectors and then diesel will not pump because of the damage. But there is no easy way of identifying it by sight or smell."
• Irish Customs officers arrested five people and seized a truck carrying six million smuggled cigarettes in Carrickmacross last week. They had followed the truck from Dublin port.