The Kumasi Depot Manager of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), Frank Mathias Agyei, and three others including two officials of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) have been arrested over an alleged 55 million cedis' illegal fuel deal.

The CEPS officials are Francis Komla and Dahamani Saaka and the other suspect Appiah Amoako is a technician working with the Company.

Mr Gideon Boateng of the Ashanti Region Police Public Relations Directorate told the Ghana News Agency that the four, on February 19, allegedly conspired and loaded 9,000 litres of diesel and 4,500 litres of petrol into a tanker and ordered a driver now on the run to take it out of the depot for sale. He said on reaching the gate security men of a private security company on duty demanded a waybill from the driver but he could not produce it.

The insistence of the security men drew the Depot Manager to the scene and he asked them to allow the driver to pass through with a promise that he would prepare a waybill later. Mr Boateng said the security men, suspicious of a possible foul deal, reported the incident to their Regional Manager who in turn informed the Managing Director of BOST in Accra.

The Managing Director immediately ordered for a report to be made to the police and they were arrested. Police have retrieved the 55 million cedis realised from the sale of the fuel from the suspects now in police custody.