4 held with 8,000 litres of stolen oil in N'ganj
Bangladesh Coast Guard members arrested four people with 8,000 litres of allegedly stolen oil and seized a boat and an oil tanker from the river Shitalakhhya of Siddhirganj upazila in Narayanganj yesterday.
The arrestees are Arif, Iajuddin, Imran and Sujon.
Furnace oil made up 6,000 litres of the recovered oil while the remainder is jet fuel, said Lt Commander Ahsan, deputy director of the Coast Guard's intelligence wing.
Ahsan said, on secret information, they intercepted the tanker around 2:00am and arrested the four men, who jumped on the boat from the tanker to flee.
On primary interrogation, they confessed to steal oil while it is being unloaded from ships at Padma Oil and Meghna Oil Depots of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation at the river bank, he added.
They used the specially designed oil tankers to smuggle the oil abroad, said Ahsan.
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