Society

Massive counterfeit gasoline ring busted in Ba Ria - Vung Tau

Police have arrested the director of a company in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau for being involved in a massive fake gasoline ring in the province.
Phạm Huy Hiệp
Massive counterfeit gasoline ring busted in Ba Ria - Vung Tau ảnh 1Gia Khiem Vung Tau petroleum retail store in Phu My in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province. (Photo: VNA)
Ba Ria – VungTau (VNA) - Police have arrested the director of a company in thesouthern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau for being involved in a massivefake gasoline ring in the province.

Vo Hoai Phuong,38, Director of Gia Khiem Transport Company, was apprehended on June 19 forproducing and selling fake gasoline, according to the provincial Department ofPublic Security.

According toinitial information, the police on June 18 caught the company’s staff, Tran VanHieu and Nguyen Phuc Hoang, pumping chemicals from a tanker truck into thegasoline tank of the company’s Gia Khiem Vung Tau petroleum retail store in HacDich ward in Phu My township. 

According tothe police, Phuong had directed the tanker truck driver to transport more than10 tonnes of chemicals used to make fake A95 fuel from a company in HoChi Minh City’s District 5 to the petroleum retail store. The fake fuelwould later be transported and distributed to filling stations.

Police alsomanaged to stop another tanker truck containing 20,000 litres of the fakegasoline pumped from the gas tank at the store and was about to be sold.

On the sameevening of June 20, the police raided Phuong’s house in HCM City andconfiscated a large amount of chemicals used to make fake fuel and relevantdocuments.

According tothe police, the suspects buy chemicals in bulk and then mix them with solventswith only a small amount of real A95 gasoline to make the fake fuel to sell tocustomers. 

The case isunder further investigation./.
source
#Ba Ria - Vung Tau#counterfeit gasoline ring#fake gasoline#petroleum retail store#vietnam#vietnam news agency#vietnamplus
Follow VietnamPlus

Related News

Handling fake goods on e-commerce platforms

Handling fake goods on e-commerce platforms

About 30,000 e-commerce stores were taken down in the first nine months of this year due to trade fraud, counterfeit and contraband goods, and the scale of the problem is looking daunting.
Former Deputy Health Minister gets four years in jail in fake medicine case

Former Deputy Health Minister gets four years in jail in fake medicine case

Former Deputy Health Minister Truong Quoc Cuong was given four years in jail in the first-instance trial of the case relating to the trading of counterfeit medicine labelled as Health 2000 Canada; lack of responsibilities causing serious consequences; and abuse of positions and power while on duty, which took place in HCM City, some other localities and at the Health Ministry’s Drug Administration (DAV).

See more

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

ASEAN’s goods, culinary culture promoted in Europe

The ASEAN Committee in Prague (ACP) launched an "ASEAN Food Corner" on October 22, aiming to promote the culinary culture and introduce goods from ASEAN countries to consumers in the Czech Republic and Europe at large.

If the plan is approved, public employees will enjoy a continuous 9-day Tet break from January 25 to February 2 next year. (Photo: VNA)

2025 Lunar New Year holiday plan submitted to PM

The Ministry of Labour – Invalids and Social Affairs on October 22 submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister regarding the schedule for the 2025 Lunar New Year (Tet) – Vietnam’s largest traditional celebration – and other national holidays.

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

Kien Giang continues to take firm stand against IUU fishing

The Standing Board of the Party Committee of southern Kien Giang province has called for strengthening the Party's leadership in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, part of a broader national effort to have the “yellow card” warning lifted by the European Commission (EC).

Yen Bai city in the northern province of Yen Bai is severely affected by Typhoon Yagi. (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam receives EU’s humanitarian aid for Typhoon Yagi victims

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC) Central Committee has received humanitarian response and early recovery support from the European Union and its member states through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)' Emergency Appeal to assist the Vietnamese people affected by Typhoon Yagi and its subsequent floodings.

Conscripted Vietnamese workers honoured with ceremony in France (Photo: VNA)

Conscripted Vietnamese workers honoured with ceremony in France

A solemn ceremony was held on October 20 in the southern city of Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture of France, to mark the 10th anniversary of the memorial dedicated to Indochinese workers who came to work in the Camargue region during World War II.

At the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between Bac Lieu and Uiseong county, Gyeongsangbuk-do province on sending local labourers to the RoK to work seasonally under the form of locality-to-locality collaboration between the two countries in the 2023 - 2027 period. (Photo: VNA)

Bac Lieu, Korean locality sign labour cooperation agreement

The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on October 21 signed a cooperation agreement with Uiseong county, Gyeongsangbuk-do province of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on sending local labourers to the RoK to work seasonally under the form of locality-to-locality collaboration between the two countries in the 2023 - 2027 period.

(Photo: VNA)

Tien Giang strives to reduce poverty rate to 0.87% this year

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committees at all levels in the southern province of Tien Giang have collaborated with agencies and organisations to speed up social security programmes, aiming to reduce the province's poverty rate to 0.87% this year, said Vice President of the provincial VFF Committee Huynh Van Hai.

The Chinese sailor is rushed to FV (Franco-Vietnamese) Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City for treatment as soon as he is brought to the shore. (Photo: VNA)

Chinese sick sailor on vessel AMIS STAR provided with first aid

A ship from the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (VMRCC) on October 20 provided first aid to critically-ill Chinese sailor on a Liberia-flagged vessel off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau before bringing him to the shore for further treatment.

At the meeting between Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang and UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif. (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam respects right to freedom of belief, religion: official

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang highlighted Vietnam’s consistent policy of respecting and protecting the right to freedom of belief and religion for all people, while meeting with UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif in his recent trip to Switzerland.