National Guard troops directed fuel theft
Municipal police officers arrested 11 national guards on Saturday and arrested a tanker truck with a stolen fuel.
At midnight on Saturday, local officials in Guwanjuado’s Abasio El Alto responded to 911 calls, and the suspects saw the suspects protecting the tapped Pmex pipeline.
The police found members of the national police patrolling the area with the weapons provided by the military and three official military vehicles. A guard sat on the wheel of a tanker truck that was filled with the pipe through the pipe.
Investigated by the police, the guard in the tanker truck said that the troops were providing protection to the fuel truck, but then started the machine and tried to flee.
As a result of the move, three officers were seized, with two of them in public clothes and eight listed men. After the incident, a study led to the police that men were stealing fuel.
The unprecedented number of troops was able to escape.
11 suspects and their weapons were transferred to the Federal Attorney General’s office, and tanker truck and military vehicles were punished. Two pick-up trucks were punished at the scene.
Media reports suggest that the captured troops came from various battles.
The Ministry of Defense acknowledged reports that 11 members of the National Police were embroiled in the stealing law, confirmed the names of the suspects to prosecutors and checked weapons and vehicles as a military issue.
Fuel theft, popularly known Huachocolio In Mexico, Pemex has long been a problem, but this has increased over the past 15 years. Fuel theft will cost about $ 900,000 a day for the state oil company, Pemex said.
Fuel smuggling and consequently tax evasion are about US $ 24 million to the National Treasury Every day last year, according to Petrointelligens.
Anti -Federal Anti -Corruption Officers The exports of banned petrol and diesel are taxed by reporting fuel as vegetable oil or lubricant. As a result, a ship lost about 1 billion Besos ($ 51.7 million).
