Local TD Declan Breathnach has expressed his concern at the resurgence of fuel smuggling in the area. Reacting to the discovery of 11 cubes of fuel laundering waste at Carrickarnon close to the Louth/Armagh border this morning, the Fianna Fáil deputy expressed the view that those behind the smuggling had found a way to remove […]
Third Report of Session 2010-12 Ordered by the House of Commons Fuel fraud costs the UK taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds in lost revenue every year. Northern Ireland alone is estimated to have lost £70 million in 2009-10. Only five years ago this figure was as high as £250 million, and while we welcome […]
Adrian Rutherford December 31 2016 2:30 AM Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy was named as a key figure in the fuel smuggling industry in British government files. Senior officials in the North were briefed that the ex-IRA chief was benefiting from Border criminality. Murphy – currently serving an 18-month sentence for tax evasion – amassed a multi-million […]
By Stephen Walker, Political reporter, BBC Northern Ireland 18 January 2012 The fight by the authorities to stop the smuggling and laundering of fuel could take two decades, according to the environment minister. He was speaking to members of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee in Westminster, who have been criticial of the lack of convictions for […]
No-one has gone to jail for fuel smuggling in Northern Ireland in the last decade, a senior customs officer has said. John Whiting, assistant director of criminal investigation for HMRC, was speaking after a diesel laundering plant was found in County Armagh. He said that time behind bars would be a “disincentive” to fuel smugglers. […]
By Jim FitzpatrickBBC NI economics and business editor 13 March 2013 From the section Northern Ireland Fuel laundering and smuggling costs the governments on both sides of the border tens of millions annually. In Northern Ireland, the latest estimates from HMRC suggest the UK government lost about £70m in revenue in 2012. That is a lot […]
13 March 2013 From the section Northern Ireland Police and customs officers from Northern Ireland have taken part in a major cross-border operation against fuel laundering and organised crime Searches were carried out in 10 Irish counties. The operation was led by the Irish Republic’s Criminal Assets Bureau and was aimed a south Armagh/north Louth criminal […]
‘After a year of exploring technological Border solutions, the Government has suddenly lost faith in this approach.’ Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters The movement of goods across the Border following Brexit is a problem of smuggling, not customs facilities. Without smuggling, customs requirements for even the hardest Brexit could be – to use the dreaded term – […]
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I recently explored Ireland’s border from end-to-end. I wanted to get to know the borders true character, to meet it on the ground. I also wanted to learn more about its past and what it might become in the future. The Brexit vote brought much anxiety to the borderland, worries about how the United Kingdom’s […]