Customs bust diesel laundry
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• Irish Customs officers have smashed a second 'diesel laundering'' plant near the border with Northern Ireland.
They seized the equipment used to remove the green dye that identifies rebated fuel; 50,000 litres of treated diesel; two oil tankers; and three oil tanks.
The laundering operation, at Kilcurry, Co Louth, was big enough to process more than 1110,000 litres of fuel a week. Last July processing equipment and six tanker trailers were seized at a warehouse in the neighbouring county.
Irish Customs says that removing the green dye can yield illegal profits of at least 300%. • In Dublin port Customs arrested a truck's driver and its owner after a 1R£65,000 consignment of cigarettes and tobacco was collected from a dock's warehouse as part of a groupage load.
But the operator and driver were released without charge when it was found that no documentation accompanied the contraband, so it was impossible to identify a consignee.
• Tipper driver Michael Murphy, 34. was killed when his tipper overturned while discharging in Co Cork.
Murphy was said to have been holding the cab door open to watch the unloading of sand and gravel when the accident happened.