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FUZHOU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- More than 80 suspects have been caught in the city of Fuzhou, south China's Fujian Province, in a refined oil smuggling case involving about 1.5 billion yuan (about 213 million U.S. dollars), local customs said Tuesday.
The suspects were nabbed in a coordinated operation on Aug. 17 by customs and the coast guard.
Six oil-smuggling rings were busted, with seven vessels, more than 1,000 tonnes of smuggled refined oil and nearly 20 million yuan of cash seized, local customs said.
The preliminary investigation showed that the suspects had trafficked around 200,000 tonnes of refined oil.
Further investigation is underway.
