Customs crackdown on green diesel on Inis Mor

Revenue officials travelled to Inis Mor today as part of an ongoing clamp-down against the illegal use of green diesel.
The routine operation set out to target mineral oil fraud.
Marked gas oil attracts a low rate of excise duty and its use in ordinary road vehicles is illegal.
In the course of the operation on Inis Mór today, there were six detections of the misuse of marked mineral oil as auto diesel.
All these cases will be followed up with a view to prosecution.
The maximum penalty on summary conviction for a first offence is €5,000.