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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10522253" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi  Peramuna (JVP) has alleged of a fraud committed by the Petroleum  Ministry through the purchase of an emergency consignment of 20,00 0  metric tons of fuel. JVP parliamentary group leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told a press  conference that the reason behind the sale of substandard fuel was due  to a massive fraud that had taken place when importing fuel. He said that the procedures outlined by the Ceylon Petroleum  Corporation (CPC) when importing fuel have not been followed when  importing a stock of 20,000 metric tons of fuel last month. He said that when tenders for fuel shipments have to be called 35  days earlier, the Ministry had called for tenders on May 5 and opened  the tenders on May 25 to import 20,000 metric tons of fuel to be  supplied by June 10. Due to time constraints many companies have not  applied. The Ministry Secretary had then unanimously decided and imported the stock through a company from the United Arab Emirates. Dissanayake said that while fuel imported to the country are tested  for their quality at the Kolonnawa refinery and the 20,000 metric tons  imported had been revealed to be of low quality than the usual supplies. The Ministry had initially refused permission to unload the stock,  but had later granted permission for the shipment to be unloaded and  distributed. This substandard fuel caused problems in vehicles once it was pumped  to them. The CPC had distributed 17,000 metric tons of the 20,000  metric tons, Dissanayake said. The remaining 3,000 metric tons has not been distributed, he said.   Petroleum Minister of Sri Lanka Susil Premajayantha yesterday said  the pooer performance of the alleged substandard fuel was due to the  mixing of fuel with rain water residue in the fuel tanks in the  respective filling stations.CP</blockquote>

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