Employees of the Office of Economic Protection in the Dnipropetrovsk region of the National Police exposed the illegal oil refinery for the manufacture of counterfeit fuel (gasoline and diesel fuel), which was located in. Krivoy Rog.

This was reported by the Department of Economic Protection of the National Police of Ukraine. With the help of operational measures, law enforcement officers established that the group consisted of seven citizens, each of whom carried out his own line of work.. The organizers of the illegal business were the owners of gas stations, at which counterfeit fuel was later sold..

As part of the criminal proceedings, it was established that the offenders in the Krivoy Rog and Shirokovsky districts made illegal taps into the main oil pipelines with the aim of further theft of oil.

The total value of raw materials and equipment seized during searches is more than 2.5 million hryvnia..

Currently, the work of the police is aimed at identifying other places of storage of stolen petroleum products, their sale, as well as persons who may be members of the group, and were involved in the illegal tapping into the oil pipeline of Ukrtransnafta OJSC.