Gangs ‘study’ fuel laundering

Crime gangs are sending people to university to get chemical engineering degrees and then employing their expertise for petrol stretching as well as diesel laundering along the border.

That is according to a senior member of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) stationed in Dundalk.

Robbie Peelo, who is on the GRA’s central executive committee and stationed in Dundalk, said the fuel-altering operations were extremely sophisticated and were not only costing the State lost revenue, but millions in having to export the sludge by-products for disposal in Germany. He was speaking at the GRA annual conference yesterday.