Four men are as­sist­ing po­lice of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion in con­nec­tion with a sus­pect­ed case of fu­el bunker­ing.Po­lice said the men were de­tained on Sun­day night af­ter of­fi­cers from the Las Lo­mas Po­lice Sta­tion, in­clud­ing Sgt Nash, Cpl John and con­sta­bles Sam­my, Ram­s­ingh and Or­cho, vis­it­ed Ghan­di Trace, off Madras Road, St He­le­na, and found sev­er­al fu­el tanks and tankers with diesel in them.When the T&T Guardian vis­it­ed the scene yes­ter­day four tanks were be­ing ex­am­ined by Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um (NP) of­fi­cers. One of the tanks was in­side a 20-foot con­tain­er ready to be trans­port­ed.

The emp­ty piece of land where the tankers were found is owned by a cen­tral busi­ness­man who told of­fi­cers that he was leas­ing part of the land to an­oth­er man.The ten­ant, po­lice said, was be­lieved to the be the mas­ter­mind in­volved in the diesel rack­et.Com­ment­ing on the is­sue yes­ter­day Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Kevin Ram­nar­ine dur­ing an in­ter­view with i95.5 FM said the dis­cov­ery was a "sig­nif­i­cant raid" when com­pared to re­cent raids. He added that the Fi­nance Bill which is to be brought to Par­lia­ment soon would sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­crease the fine for the il­le­gal ex­port of diesel un­der the Cus­toms Act.