Chemical marker being used with diesel

Enemalta has started adding a marker chemical to diesel and other fuel it imports so as to detect any contraband, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech has confirmed in Parliament. He said the measure was introduced last April. The chemical that is used is...

Enemalta has started adding a marker chemical to diesel and other fuel it imports so as to detect any contraband, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech has confirmed in Parliament.

He said the measure was introduced last April. The chemical that is used is less harmful to health than the diesel itself.

In March, Customs Department officials discovered more than 10,000 litres of contraband diesel hidden in tanks during a search at a farm in the limits of Ċirkewwa.

A few days previously, a bowser and several tanks containing contraband diesel were found at Xrobb L-Ghagin. A bowser and three 1,000-litre plastic tanks full of diesel were also found in a garage in Zejtun.

Six plastic tanks each containing 1,000 litres of diesel were found on a truck in Marsaxlokk by Customs officials in October.

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