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• Two men from a Liverpool haulage company will appear at South Sefton magistrates court, Merseyside, on 15 September charged with smuggling more than 25,000 litres of un-taxed diesel into the UK from the Republic of Ireland.
Kevin Halligan, of Prescot, Merseyside, and Anthony Joseph Long, of Orre11 Park, Liverpool, appeared at South Sefton magistrates on 21 July; they were released on bail.
Forty Customs & Excise offi cers from the National Investigation Service and North West Collection Fraud District followed one of the firm's tankers after it disembarked from the BelfastLiverpool ferry on Tuesday 9 June in an operation called Starched (CM 18-24 June).
Samples drawn from the tanker's contents by the Road Fuel Testing Unit when it was seized in the unnamed firm's yard revealed that all 25,000 litres were dyed green.