Libya is calling for more collaboration from the Maltese authorities to stop the "smuggling of Libyan fuels by Maltese mafia", which according to Attorney General Sadiq Al-Sour is happening every day. Announcing a wide-ranging probe to stop the rampant smuggling of refined fuel products, particularly petrol and diesel, from Libyan ports, the office of the Libyan Attorney General said it had issued arrest warrants against a number of executives in the Libyan oil industry suspected of collaborating in fuel smuggling. However, the Attorney General pointed the finger at Malta, saying it was a known secret Maltese businessmen were heavily involved in the smuggling. "Maltese and Italian mafias are sending oil vessels on a daily basis to receive the fuel smuggled from Libya. We arrested some of those smugglers, and they were from Italy, Malta and the Ukraine," he said. Asked yesterday on whether any Maltese were recently arrested by Libyan authorities for fuel smuggling, Foreign Minister George Vella said that he did not know and referred this newspaper to the police. Pressed to state whether the ongoing accusations that Malta was implicated in rampant fuel smuggling were being taken...
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