Gardaí find 10m litre fuel laundering plant in Waterford

Gardaí investigating the theft of a trailer stumbled upon the most southerly diesel laundering plant in the country, which was capable of annually producing 10m litres and defrauding the State of €5m.

Gardaí in Co Waterford were tipped off about the theft of the trailer and obtained a search warrant which they executed last Friday at an industrial estate at Portlaw.

Details of the operation — which continued over the weekend — only emerged last night after officers from the Revenue’s Customs Service admitted they’d seized “a number of large tanks and ancillary equipment”.