Thermal Power Plants Smuggling Diesel

Close to 1.5 billion liters of diesel are smuggled to neighboring countries by thermal power stations per year, spokesman for the Majlis Energy Commission said.
"Given the fact that each liter of diesel can be sold 50 times higher in Iran’s border regions, the illicit fuel trafficking by power plants can generate up to $1.5 billion for them per annum,” Malek Shariati-Niasar was also quoted as saying by Barq News website.
According to the spokesman, official data issued by supervisory bodies indicate that some power stations send the Oil Ministry tankers to border areas instead of emptying them in power plants’ storage tanks and this helps them smuggle about 4 million liters of diesel per day.