TEHRAN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday that its intelligence forces have smashed a major fuel smuggling network.
The IRGC said on its official Sepha news website that the intelligence's "accurate and smart operations" identified and disbanded the country's biggest networks to smuggle subsidized fuel.
The network had been active in eight Iranian provinces, and has smuggled over 200 million liters of petroleum products in the guise of exports to some countries in the region by abusing official deeds and documents, it said.
The major destinations involve Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, it added.
The members of the network have been handed over to the judiciary, it said.
Iran cited the price gap between the highly subsidized fuel in the domestic market and those sold abroad as the main reason the criminal rings are tempted to smuggle.
