Sri Lanka, March 12 -- Four individuals have been arrested with a large quantity of illegally collected diesel during a raid in Biyagama, police stated.

Officers attached to the Kelaniya Division Criminal Investigation Unit carried out the operation in the Biyagama, where they apprehended the suspects along with two bowser trucks transporting 19,060 litres of diesel believed to have been collected and stored unlawfully.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects had been illegally purchasing diesel from vehicles travelling along the road - including lorries, tipper trucks and private vehicles - by paying drivers to siphon fuel from their tanks without permits. The fuel was then stored in tanks prepared by the suspects and lat...