Judiciary: Members of the largest organized international fuel smuggling ring have been arrested
According to Iran’s judiciary, members of the largest organized international fuel smuggling ring, known as ‘Toofan’, and several bank managers associated with it have been arrested.
Mojtaba Ghahremani, the chief justice of Hormozgan Province, says the financial turnover of this ring was 167 trillion tomans.
Mr. Ghahremani stated that the intelligence forces of Hormozgan Province, after about two years of continuous intelligence and operational work both domestically and internationally, managed to arrest some members of this ring.
He also mentioned that under this major ring, 35 other organized networks were operating.
According to him, the main buyer of fuel from this network was an international company in one of the Persian Gulf countries, although he did not mention the name of the country.
The chief justice of Hormozgan Province also says that through smaller networks, this ring has smuggled over 4 billion liters of fuel out of Iran in recent years.