Frost. As part of a service aimed at combating fraud in the sector of excise duties and other indirect taxes on production and consumption, the soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Caltanissetta, together with officials of the Customs Agency -ADM, in implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding, signed last April 2023, and relating to the collaborative relationships between the two institutions, seized 22,412 liters of diesel fuel that did not comply with the regulations, ready to be released for consumption by two distribution plants in Gela and Niscemi . The vast campaign of controls, which saw the participation of the soldiers of the Gela Group and officials of the Porto Empedocle Customs Agency, was aimed at operators who present significant risk alerts in relation to the most widespread illicit phenomena, such as , for example, the illegal mixing of energy products, in order to avoid the circulation of fuel adulterated with solvents or mixed with used vegetable oils to the detriment of motorists and hauliers. The operations were carried out through the rapid collection of samples of the hydrocarbon present in the tanks, aimed at ascertaining the flash point: to guarantee the timeliness of the control, the support of the Mobile Laboratory and the Chemical Laboratory of Palermo of the Customs Agency, thanks to which it was possible to immediately determine all the tax specifications, product and environmental characteristics of the product collected.
