Corruption: IPG Ship Carrying Contaminated Crude Oil From Iran To Zambia Held In Tanzania
A few days ago, we reported that the Zambian government and Independent Petroleum Group (IPG) of Kuwait loaded illegal and dirty crude oil possibly from the black market in Iran using forged documents then tried to mislead the world that the oil was legitimately purchased from the Emirates.
Now the same tanker carrying the dirty and illegal oil has reportedly been detained in Zanzibar, Tanzania as the shippers were trying to smuggle the dirty oil into Zambia.
According to Tanzania’s biggest newspaper the Guardian, an Iranian oil tanker, MT Argo carrying thousands of substandard oil, arrived in the outer anchorage of Dar es Salaam port on Thursday, sending shivers of fear to stakeholders that the product may be dumped in the local market.
The newspaper, in its Business pages, reported that Sources at Dar es Salaam port said the suspicious oil tanker, which belongs to the National Iranian Tanker Company, loaded the cargo from Iran but its bill of lading had been altered to indicate that it was loaded at Fujairah. ‘
The fuel on board this ship has very high sulphur content against our laws,’ the source said, pointing out that importers of the fuel were showing papers that its transit cargo was destined for Zambia. ‘’But this product, which has 10,000 parts per million of sulphur content, does not meet Zambian specifications either,’’ the source noted, warning that some crooked local importers might be behind the consignment. But to make matters worse, the Iranian ship, which was manufactured by a South Korean ship builder, Daewoo, in 2000 does not meet the requirements of berthing at Dar es Salaam port. The tanker is more than 15 years old, which disqualifies it from berthing at our port,’’ the source noted.
Last week, the Zambian Watchdog reported that Independent Petroleum Group (IPG) loaded Iranian Crude oil from Iran and disguised the criminality by issuing fraudulent documents to portray that the Cargo loaded is from Fujaira United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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New Educated Zambia©√
March 6, 2016 at 3:41 pm
And when Nez says that the pf are corrupt I am insulted. Alot will be revealed in august when upnd take over and the rule of law is in swinging effect. We will start with lungu.
Hello Haters
March 6, 2016 at 5:21 pm
The tanker has been mugufulid, so ninani ulelya mwibala?
John white
March 6, 2016 at 5:50 pm
Big thief lungu
luapula boy
March 6, 2016 at 7:30 pm
If it is true then it is very unfortunately ,because you cn nt polute the pipo you want to govern
Ken
March 6, 2016 at 9:56 pm
The last kicks of dying hose can be fatal. HH know he is having his last try at the helm of UPND and therefore he has released all he can and currently has a huge wage bill for strategic liars. They are busy selecting topics that they hope can convince the people but they have lamentably so far fails because they are actually very dull chaps he has engaged. The lies are written on sand. The lies cannot stand against truth that is a fact. HH is lying everyday and UPND and his strategist drive the PF into making mistakes but now its so frustrating to HH because nothing seems to be working while his fortunes are fast dwindling. Its a known fact that PF and EL will wing August 11 polls it is also a fact that PF will win with over 50%
kashimbi
March 7, 2016 at 9:38 am
Uli chikopo, get back and re write your Form 5. Is it HH who procured this tainted fuel?? Your heads are so so crooked that you are even to differenciate wrong from right. Wake up ba mwa Philwa fyonse.
zam@51
March 8, 2016 at 6:32 am
I agree with you
kanayo
March 7, 2016 at 9:35 am
what more with Dora Siliya and RB the two patners in crime among PF. God help us
Moses mwalongo
March 7, 2016 at 10:07 am
Ndeloleshafye..?
leonald bima
March 7, 2016 at 11:19 am
Ba Gbm mwali yumfwapo ” treason ” ? Pembelapanono fye ukalubana
danny chisha
March 8, 2016 at 12:50 pm
ba pf kuya bebele twachula pafula, go go upnd we are behind u.
danny chisha
March 8, 2016 at 1:08 pm
the true pf died with sata, and he was de great president zambia ever hav. ba rb is much better than edgar lungu, u are going to cry more than rb. lets come 11 august viva hh, viva upnd.
Brian
March 9, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Pabwato viva ecl,kopala.