IF had two trucks that had been modified into tanks able to carry up to 8,000 liters of oil each.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Jakarta police have uncovered illegal selling of subsidized diesel fuel to an industry in Cipayung, East Jakarta.
"We have arrested a driver and a truck owner known by his initials as IF and confiscated two trucks used to deliver the subsidized oil to industries," the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Command`s head of public relations division, Senior Commissioner Rikwanto, said here on Wednesday.
He said IF had two trucks that had been modified into tanks able to carry up to 8,000 liters of oil each.
IF bought oil using the trucks at filling stations and sold the oil to a collector who later sold it to factories at a non-subsidized price of around Rp9,000 per liter.
The suspects are facing a prison term of up to four years and a fine of Rp4 billion for violatng Article 53 of Law Number 22 of 2001 on oil and gas.
The government is expected to raise the price of subsidized fuel oils namely gasoline and diesel fuel after the parliament recently agreed with revisions in the 2013 budget to include a compensation plan for the poor.
(T.T014/Uu.H-YH/F001)
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