Phuket Customs seize B8mn of smuggled fuel in Krabi

Phuket Gazette –

Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command Assistant Chief of Staff Capt Natapol Malarat (front, in tan-colored uniform) explains how the oil was transported in the hold of the converted fishing boat. Photo: Chutharat Plerin

Customs and Royal Thai Navy officers pose in front of the fuel tanker truck seized in the raid. Photo: Chutharat Plerin

PHUKET: Phuket Customs officials this morning announced the seizure of what they claim is 8 million baht of smuggled fuel.

Customs and navy officers seized the “black oil” as it was being pumped from a wooden ship converted into a fuel tanker to a fuel transport truck waiting on shore late on Friday night in Krabi.

Two crew members of the boat, docked at the Baan Bor Muang Pier in Khlong Thom District, as well as the driver of the fuel transport truck were arrested in the raid.

After they were unable to produce a manifest for the shipment or other necessary documents, the three men were taken into custody.

A total of 30,000 liters of fuel were seized as evidence, along with the tanker and transport truck.

The suspects said they were hired by a “Thai investor” to bring the shipment ashore at the designated location.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2012/article16596.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-08-06

8 million bht divided by 45 bht litre is 177.777 litre so what's happened to the other 137.777 litre if customs only took 30,000