ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has claimed that the National Logistic Cell (NLC) tankers are involved in theft of huge quantity of worth billion of rupees crude oil in Karak district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
A report submitted by the FIA to the National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources said that of the 46 tankers found involved in the theft of oil from oil fields (control/own by MOL Pakistan gas and company), 30 were owned by the NLC while 16 were owned by another private contractor, M/S Saadullah Shah.
The same committee was earlier informed that the theft of crude oil worth billion of rupees from MOL oil fields in Karak has taken place.
According to the report, the subject enquiry has been registered by FIA Peshawar circle under the directions of the competent authority. The allegations under probe are related to the mega-theft of crude oil through different modes, which include by puncturing the main oil transmission line at different places and illegal enhancement of the storage capacity of the oil tankers to transport the stolen oil from the field with the connivance of public servants and other persons.
