The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces – Public Relations Division on Tuesday announced via its “Twitter” account that “the ISF’s Information Division has seized in Zahle 38 tanks full of gasoline, with each tank’s capacity estimated at approximately 50,000 liters,” adding that the tanks belong to a gas station owner.
Consequently, the Ministry of Energy has been assigned to safely confiscate this amount and sell it for the benefit of the state treasury, as per a circular by the state’s Public Prosecution.
Caretaker Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Mohammad Fahmi, on Tuesday lauded the efforts of the Internal Security Forces seizing more than 1.5 million liters of gasoline that have been illegally stored inside warehouses in Zahle.
Addressing the ISF, he said: “You are the guarantors of citizens’ rights in the face of unscrupulous people.”
Source: NNA