Police foil fuel hoarding

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 | Source: JP:ASA

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Police officers foiled on Saturday a fuel hoarding attempt at Pemenang gas station on Lombok, and apprehended a truck loaded with 15 drums of gasoline and a drum of diesel fuel.

The arrest took place at 10 p.m on Saturday as police officers discovered the truck crew filling up the drums at the gas station in West Lombok regency.

The officers asked them whether they possessed delivery order documents issued by state oil and gas company PT Pertamina, and when they replied that they had none, the police arrested them, said Adj. Sr. Comr. Basri, the spokesman for the West Nusa Tenggara police. -- JP

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