65,000 litres of stolen diesel recovered

The Pakistan Customs Intelligence on Wednesday successfully recovered 65,000 litres of stolen diesel and arrested a suspect in connection with a unique diesel theft case involving the construction of an underground pipeline in the Parco area of Karachi.

Following information about organised diesel theft from the Parco underground pipeline, customs officials initiated an operation in the early hours of Wednesday at the Port Qasim fuel station. Stolen duty-evaded diesel was being siphoned through the white oil pipeline from Karachi and sold in the market, according to customs officials.

Acting on confidential information, a customs intelligence team had been monitoring a suspicious industrial area in Karachi.

Officials uncovered the involvement of administrative staff from a fuel station near Port Qasim in the theft. A tunnel approximately 15 feet deep and 174 feet long was discovered at the fuel station, connected to Parco’s white pipeline, facilitating the secret theft of non-duty-paid diesel. In the covert operation, approximately 65,000 liters of diesel, valued at around 20 million rupees, were recovered. The owner of the premises was also arrested.