...One can only wonder how many diesel engines were ruined due to this scam

The Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the Court of Appeal in Wrocław have broken a fuel scam in Lower Silesia. The swindlers were selling heating oil as diesel fuel after they changed its previously red color. So far 13 people have been charged, while six are under temporary arrest. ABW officers seized two locations with the fuel in Wrocław and Kąty Wrocławskie, which were used to change the color of the oil. At least 7.5 million liters of the counterf eit oil was produced since last year. Trucks were used to distribute and hi de the source of the oil from the two locations through a network of non-ex isting companies to Lower Silesian fuel stations. ABW, according to sources, is now searching for the chemists who worked out how to change the color of the fuel and were allegedly paid zł. 200,000 for their formula. The Treasury has so far lost at least zł. 9 million due to unpaid excise and VAT taxes. The ABW and the Court stressed that the case is evolving and are expecting to announce further arrests. (www.onet.pl) M.M.