Africa-Press – Angola. Staff from the Reaction and Patrol Unit (URP) of the Provincial Command of the National Police arrested, last Saturday, 12 nationals and a foreigner from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for attempting to smuggle 950 liters of gasoline.
The operation resulted in the seizure of five light vehicles that were transporting the seized fuel, according to data provided by the Institutional Office and Press of the Delegation of the Ministry of the Interior.
The Policy clarifies that, since last Saturday, the URP teams have intensified patrolling in the city of Cabinda to detect vehicles with tinted windows, which are being used to smuggle fuel.
With this new modus operandi, smugglers of refined products try to confuse the authorities as taxi services, when inside they carry camouflaged drums of fuel to be sold across borders.
Aware of this new modus operandi, in its current operational actions, the URP team stopped in the south of the city of Cabinda, on the border with the DRC, in flagrante delicto, five (5) light vehicles carrying 13 passengers and 38 25-liter drums each of gasoline.
The perpetrators of this action and their vehicles are already reporting to Justice in Cabinda.
The smuggling of crude oil products across borders is a practice that dates back many years.
The Police have been seizing daily amounts of fuel destined for smuggling on the land borders with the two Congos, especially in areas less unprotected by border forces.
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