Economy Minister follows up on fuel distribution and counter-smuggling efforts including GPS tracking
At a meeting at the ministry’s Tripoli headquarters yesterday, the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Mohamed Hwej, followed up on ...
Tag: fuel smuggling
Libyan Army’s 444th Combat Brigade arrests fuel smugglers and seizes fuel trucks
The 444th Combat Brigade, a detachment of the (western-based) Libyan Army reported yesterday that it had made arrests of fuel ...
Customs Authority returns 22,200 litres of seized smuggled fuel to Brega Company
The Customs Authority at the Ras Jdair Libyan-Tunisian land border crossing has handed over a total of 22,200 litres of ...
In an effort to counter fuel smuggling, the Economy Minister orders fuel trucks to be fitted with GPS tracking devices
In the country’s continuing effort to counter the smuggling of its subsidised fuel, Libya’s Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed ...
444 Brigade continues fight against fuel smugglers
The fighting detachments of the 444th Brigade announced yesterday that it is continuing its anti-fuel smuggling campaign on the edges ...
GPS truck tracking to be used to counter fuel smuggling, profiteering by fuel distributors will be penalized
By Sami Zaptia. The Ministry of Economy is reviewing fuel distribution and fighting corruption (file photo). London, 20 April 2021: ...
U.S. sanctions against oil smugglers receives Libyan welcome
By Sami Zaptia. (Logo: NOC). London, 8 August 2020: The U.S. imposition of sanctions on Thursday against Libyan and Maltese ...
U.S. imposes financial sanctions on Libyans, Maltese company and vessel for smuggling fuel and drugs
By Sami Zaptia. London, 6 August 2020: In a statement sent directly to Libya Herald by the U.S. Embassy in ...
Russia’s Wagner may booby-trap and plant air defences in Libya’s oilfields: Sanalla
By Sami Zaptia. (Logo: NOC). London, 7 July 2020: In a lengthy interview on Libyan television last night, National Oil ...
Swiss company Kolmar taken to court for possible war crime of pillage through buying smuggled Libyan oil
By Sami Zaptia. After the publication of the report in March by Public Eye and TRIAL showing that Swiss company ...
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