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DIESEL REVENUE evaded through fraud and smuggling is running at
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£850m a year and Customs & Excise's strategy for tackling the problem is unsatisfactory, according to a parliamentary report.
The Treasury select committee is urging the government to review C&E 's procedures for tackling oils fraud. Its Excise Duty Fraud report warns: "We are concerned at the scale of the fraud in this area... and we are struck by the fact that there has been a consistent pattern of estimates for a given year being subsequently revised upward.
"We cannot consider Customs' strategy for tackling oils fraud to be working satisfactorily when losses continue at this level."
It reveals that the excise duty evaded by smuggling and fraud has been estimated by C&E at £3.8bn for 2003-04. A C&E spokesman says the UK is the first European country to have dedicated strategies committed to tackling duty fraud and smuggling, which have been "hugely successful". He adds:"We note the report's conclusions and recommendations and will respond in due course."
• C&E has charged three people with dealing and carrying illegal fuel following raids in Northern Ireland. Officers seized vehicles and 18,500 litres of suspected illegal fuel aller searching five premises in the South Downs and Belfast areas.
Separately! C&E detained a vehicle discharging fuel at a filling station in County Fermanagh. The boxvan was carrying a rubbish skip containing a 4,000-litre tank. Another 11,700 litres of fuel were removed from the site. Two men were arrested but later released.