CUSTOMS RAID HITS IRISH FUEL FRAUDSTERS
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ELEVEN COMMERCIAL and private addresses have been raided across Northern Ireland and the Republic in a cross-border operation tackling suspected fuel fraud and money laundering.
On 1 September, officers from HMRC, supported by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, executed search warrants at five addresses in Tyrone and Armagh. HMRC seized business records and more than £30,000. In co-ordinated activity in Galway, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Westmeath and Dublin, the HRMC and officers from the Organised Crime Unit, the Criminal Assets Bureau and local units executed search warrants at six premises.
A laundering plant capable of producing 18 million litres of illicit fuel a year was dismantled in Monaghan. More than 145,000 litres of illicit fuel were seized in the raids south of the border. Two individuals were arrested in the Republic and investigations are continuing.