Police, customs and tax officials conduct checks in Lukoil warehouses

From May 10, checks are being carried out in the tax warehouses of Lukoil Neftohim Burgas AD and Lukoil Bulgaria Ltd, the Ministry of Finance announced.

The inspections involve joint teams of officials from the Customs Agency, the National Revenue Agency, the General Directorate for Combating Organised Crime - Ministry of Interior, the General Directorate of National Police - Ministry of Interior and the State Agency for State Reserve and Wartime Stocks. If necessary, the teams will seek assistance from the State Agency for Metrological and Technical Supervision as well as other state institutions and control bodies.

"We will be checking for the compliance of what is on the documents and what is available as physical quantity of all the fuels, and here I want to reassure the Bulgarian citizens that this will in no way harm the activities of the two trading companies, as well as the supply of fuels to the citizens, said Minister of Interior Kalin Stoyanov ahead of the Interior Ministry's National Meeting for the elections.

The total number of officers involved in the operation is over 190.

The main objective of the operation, which was ordered by caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, is to carry out an inventory by recording the physical stocks of energy products (with CN codes 2707, 2709, 2710, 2711), including bioethanol and biodiesel, stored on the territory of tax warehouses, and the data will be compared with the material records under Article 74 - Article 76 of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Law on Excise and Tax Warehouses.

The operation covers the tax warehouses of the two companies, representing oil depots on the territory of the districts of Sofia City, Sofia Region, Stara Zagora, Varna, Ruse, Plovdiv, Burgas, as well as the tax warehouses managed by the State Agency "State Reserve and Wartime Stocks".

Control actions will continue until the inventory is completed in all sites. After a summary, public information on the results will be provided.