TASNIM NEWS: Iran’s national police economic security chief said authorities
uncovered illegal fuel-tapping operations on main transmission pipelines in
Isfahan, Kerman and east of Tehran. In Isfahan police arrested three suspects at
a brick factory near a pipeline, seized two vehicles and said the suspects
admitted stealing and smuggling 2.24 mln liters of fuel. In Kerman authorities
detained 10 suspects, seized two tanker trucks and said they admitted diverting
about 1.7 mln liters. East of Tehran, suspects rented an abandoned site along a
pipeline, dug a channel to the main line; two suspects initially escaped but
were later captured in Semnan and have admitted stealing about 20,000 liters.
