Police Confiscate Trucks Smuggling Thai Gasoline

5 March 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Energy / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Imports / Non-renewable energy production / Oil and gas resources / Siem Reap / Trade
Economic Police / Gasoline / Mittapheap / National Route 68 / Siem Reap / Siem Reap Economic Police / smuggling / Tela / Thailand / Varin

Police in Siem Reap province said yesterday that they confiscated two trucks in Varin district Friday morning carrying 24,228 liters of gasoline believed to have been smuggled from Thailand. Soeun Sem, chief of the Siem Reap economic police, said that officers apprehended the two trucks holding drums of gasoline as they were driving along National Route 68, but the two drivers managed to escape. … The discovery of the trucks comes as provincial police are stepping up investigations into illegal sales of untaxed gasoline smuggled from Thailand after three gasoline companies, including Tela and Mittapheap, filed complaints over what they said was an increase in smuggling.