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Fuel smugglers cost Europe billions of euros in lost taxes

A customer uses a fuel pump at a gas station in the UK.
August 27, 2013 05:00 AM

LONDON (Bloomberg) -- The watchman at Germany's largest oil refinery, the MiRO plant in Karlsruhe, would wait until a fellow security guard was out of sight before sending a text message that it was safe to drive a 10,000-liter tanker of stolen diesel out the gates.

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