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Vessel carrying smuggled Iranian oil cargo seized in Karachi
Web Desk On Jul 31, 2020 Last Updated Jul 31, 2020
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KARACHI: Intelligence agencies and Customs officials in a joint operation, has captured a large consignment of Iranian oil illegally brought to Karachi in a ship, ARY News reported on Friday.

A vessel of a private oil company captured with 100,000 tonnes of Iranian oil cargo smuggled to Karachi, sources said.

According to sources, the ship was anchored at a SPM or a floating jetty of a private oil company.


The government agencies on an intelligence report acted promptly and now the ship carrying smuggled oil cargo has been in the custody of the Customs authorities, sources further said.


It is pertinent to mention here that there is an international embargo on oil trade with Iran.

The Iranian oil cargo was brought to Pakistan by tampering shipment documents, according to the sources.

Smuggled Iranian oil is cheaper in comparison to the oil from other countries and could be purchased in half price of the oil imported from other oil producing countries.

“A top official of the Ministry of Petroleum is also involved in the import of the illegal oil cargo,” sources claimed.


According to sources, secret agencies have conducted several raids at the office of the private oil company allegedly involved in the matter.
 
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One Lac Ton of Oil has been caught on Intellegence based operation near Karachi . Oil has been confiscated by Intellegence agencies and Custom officials . Oil was being smuggled from Iran by a Private Oil company of Pakistan .

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Who is this private company?. We must know the name and also fined heavily and even license cancel
 
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This is what i keep talking about and mullah regime mouthpieces and their Pakistani chamchas keep spewing propaganda. Iran is destroying Pakistan economy with its smuggling. Suddenly the markets in karkhano Peshawar are filled with iranian products, all of them smuggled, zero tax paid while dollars being spent to buy these goods from iran. I also suspect govt officials like zulfi bukhari being involved in it. Such large scale smuggling not possible without someone in govt giving support. This PTI govt is full of foreign agents.
 
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Why would Iran sell it cheaply?

If true, then why doesn't the company just buy it legally or Iran export much more of it at that price to Pakistan?
 
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Screw the embargo, build a pipeline from Iran to Karachi and get cheap oil. Would boost the economy if prices fell by 50%
 
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lot of Iranian food and plastic products are available in the market and i believe most of them are smuggal goods
 
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Screw the embargo, build a pipeline from Iran to Karachi and get cheap oil. Would boost the economy if prices fell by 50%

Not a bad idea.

Iranian gasoline & diesel has been smuggled to Iran & Afghanistan even since I joined Esso Pakistan back in 1967. Smuggling carries a bad name and is a criminal offense, but otherwise honest & law-abiding citizens often indulge in it without any feeling of guilt. The famous Landi Kotal market and ‘Bara’ bazaar, which once existed just outside Karachi at the begging of the national highway, sold smudged cloth and luxury goods quite openly.

As long as there is a significant price difference between the price of a commodity across the border, enterprising merchants would risk the border controls and smuggle goods in demand into the country with higher duties & taxes.

The only thing a country loses is the customs duty; but from the purely commercial point of view, it is just normal trade and dates back to the time when the countries started imposing exorbitant duties on imported goods. In the majority of cases, the smuggled goods are sold in the local currency and often the proceeds are used to purchase locally produced goods which are cheaper & in demand in the other country.

For a country like Pakistan where paring for the LPG, gasoline & diesel creates a big hole in the pockets of the Joe public, in my opinion, smuggled petroleum products from Iran are economically beneficial. The public buys cheap petrol and the country does pay in Dollars.

Here is an article from Iran on this subject.

ran: Smuggling fuel to neighboring Pakistan

Trucks smuggling fuel from Iran to Pakistan
Analysis by PMOI/MEK



Iran, July 9, 2019 - In recent days, reports have emerged on social media claiming that huge amounts of fuel are smuggled to Pakistan over Iran’s eastern borders. Namely the Sistan and Baluchistan province in southeast Iran where the major part of the Sunni minority lives is blamed for the smuggling.

However, it is no secret that the main smuggling of fuel and especially oil in recent years isn’t done with 40-liter fuel containers. Organizing endless caravans of fuel tankers with thousands of liters of capacity each can’t be done without at least receiving the green light from authorities.

In 2018, the Fars news agency, affiliated to the terrorist-designated Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), published a video clip titled, “Organized smuggling of fuel/‌pipework on the seabed for smuggling fuel!” They also wrote about smuggling fuel with small boats: “In Hormozgan province, there are 50 launches [small boats] which smuggle 20,000 to 50,000 liters of fuel each, every day. That’s how millions of liters of the country’s resources are stolen every day.”

Smuggling fuel was a lucrative business in Iran even before the energy sanctions that prevented the Iranian mullahs from selling the country’s crude oil for hard currency. That is because fuel is subsidized in Iran and is sold way lower than free market prices. Profiteers with the right connections and assets can make a fortune by smuggling the cheap fuel to neighboring countries.

Also in late 2018, Abdollah Hendiani, deputy manager of the office of the fight against goods and currency smuggling in Iran, said during an interview with Iran’s state-run television, “Over the past three months, about one billion liters have been smuggled. This is about ten to 13 million liters of smuggled fuel every day.”

Smuggling this huge amount of fuel over the Iranian border per day requires a caravan of 500 fuel tankers with a capacity of 20,000 liters each. And every tanker needs to cross the border twice per day.

The amount of trafficked fuel is so high that Pakistani officials are calling for action to prevent further damages to their economy.

Fars news agency writes, “The Pakistani customs office announced in a report that smuggled fuel from Iran is damaging the country in the range of 300 million rupees per year, calling for increased supervision of the borders.”

“Reports show that about 50 to 60 percent of Karachi’s fuel is smuggled and foreign shipping companies and domestic fuel stations are the customer base of Iran’s smuggled gas,” Fars news agency further writes.

The situation is so bad that Iranian regime Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh acknowledges the fact that officials have a hand in the entire smuggling business. “Smuggling has increased. And it’s not only smugglers, everybody has [a hand in it],” he said.

Iran’s chief of the committee for combating trafficking also said that smuggling fuel is an “organized crime” and “it may be connected to some government institutions.”

Although smuggling fuel and crude oil can by no means compensate for the sales that the Iranian regime has lost due to sanctions, pundits expect further increases in smuggling in the coming months.

https://english.mojahedin.org/i/iran-oil-fuel-smuggling-pakistan-IRGC
 
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This is what i keep talking about and mullah regime mouthpieces and their Pakistani chamchas keep spewing propaganda. Iran is destroying Pakistan economy with its smuggling. Suddenly the markets in karkhano Peshawar are filled with iranian products, all of them smuggled, zero tax paid while dollars being spent to buy these goods from iran. I also suspect govt officials like zulfi bukhari being involved in it. Such large scale smuggling not possible without someone in govt giving support. This PTI govt is full of foreign agents.

Don't take away credit from customs and FC.
 
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Screw the embargo, build a pipeline from Iran to Karachi and get cheap oil. Would boost the economy if prices fell by 50%

I’m in full agreement we as a nation need to look out for our survival at best and do what’s in our best interest. Cheaper oil even if not paid taxes on still people buy and circulate money locally. This will help people free up money to spend else where restaurants, boutiques etc. Not like the current and former governments have done any better. And most of all when have these nations that have placed embargo’s helped Pakistan or Pakistani interest.

Why stop at pipeline build a freaking motor way and let the trade begin.
 
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