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[00:00:00] saying, company, would be waiting my station the cars place to at Taybeh had no and tankers company stations in unload, while and the other and Taybeh rural Damascus had no
[00:00:16] has been made,
[00:00:18] people. Today,
[00:00:27] at first, we
[00:00:38] liter of gasoline you put in
[00:00:41] your car cost you? If I were to
[00:00:44] ask this question on the street today,
[00:00:47] the answers would come like explosions of
[00:00:50] of responsibilities. anger
[00:00:51] come up with? towards everyone who sold people adulterated
[00:00:55] fuel for their
[00:00:56] given adulterated vehicles, turning them into piles
[00:01:00] of scrap
[00:01:02] material reached and junk due to red gasoline. And red gasoline, ladies
[00:01:06] and gentlemen, is a new
[00:01:09] arrival in fuel depots, disabling
[00:01:12] their operating and mechanical
[00:01:16] or to inventory and electrical systems and leaving their owners
[00:01:20] with loss and regret over
[00:01:24] is that its their life savings. The Ministry of Energy says
[00:01:27] results of the it will form an investigation committee to follow
[00:01:31] the chains of production, storage,
[00:01:34] and transportation, and all those involved
[00:01:39] Daraa. in the red gasoline tragedy. As for the Syrian Company for Storing and Distributing
[00:01:42] Petroleum Products,
[00:01:44] there. It's Satecop, it confirmed that
[00:01:47] the samples taken from various stages of the supply
[00:01:50] chain were compliant with standard
[00:01:54] specifications. Between the two investigations,
[00:01:57] there are facts on the ground that the public
[00:02:00] raises as
[00:02:03] mechanic, I questions: Who sold Syrians adulterated fuel? Who
[00:02:06] will compensate them? What is the source of the shipments,
[00:02:09] and how did they pass, and where were
[00:02:11] the regulatory
[00:02:14] and consumer protection authorities? When
[00:02:18] is corruption negligence, and when does
[00:02:22] at the station, it become a felony? Finally, what are
[00:02:24] the powers of the investigation committees? When
[00:02:28] will they submit their report
[00:02:30] to the public, and how will they deal with
[00:02:33] its results? The Ministries of Oil and Justice, these
[00:02:37] questions and many
[00:02:58] Directorate is episode to discuss
[00:03:01] no answer. So we, this the story of adulterated
[00:03:03] gasoline. So, welcome, esteemed viewers. The Minister
[00:03:07] of Energy, Mohammed Al-Bashir, ordered comprehensive
[00:03:11] field investigations into the adulterated
[00:03:14] gasoline that spread in the markets and
[00:03:17] caused damage to vehicles and their
[00:03:20] engines. The ministerial directive
[00:03:23] clarified that the investigations include
[00:03:27] it won't start reviewing the stages of gasoline import,
[00:03:31] testing, receiving, storage, transportation,
[00:03:34] and distribution, confirming that accountability
[00:03:37] will extend to
[00:03:40] everyone who tampered, neglected, or corrupted.
[00:03:44] We follow the report,
[00:03:46] We hope that
[00:03:46] you, and good and then we return to open the discussion
[00:03:49] on this topic. While you were driving
[00:03:52] your car, it suddenly stopped, so you went
[00:03:56] and good material. to the nearest answers to
[00:03:58] gasoline, and I maintenance center to find out that
[00:04:01] a malfunction affected the engine, and the
[00:04:05] reason was the gas station that sold
[00:04:08] you faulty fuel.
[00:04:11] diesel requests, according to him. The story began days ago when complaints
[00:04:15] discrepancy or started to rise
[00:04:17] He's complaining about a shortage about hundreds of this confirms cars' engines breaking
[00:04:20] can Baniyas the first time, down due to a batch of gasoline that did not
[00:04:24] meet specifications and was pumped into
[00:04:28] the markets. After that, questions from
[00:04:32] Syrian Oil Company. those affected began about the source
[00:04:36] and investigations. of the defect in a complete chain starting from supply
[00:04:40] and passing through
[00:04:41] honestly inspection, storage, damage that and distribution,
[00:04:45] ending with a citizen paying the price
[00:04:48] for a defect they had no part in.
[00:04:52] Gasoline of dark
[00:04:55] Okay, from red color and viscous. This
[00:04:57] is what people are
[00:05:00] talking about amidst demands to determine
[00:05:03] the nature of the
[00:05:05] was the cause substance and the
[00:05:07] or three-wheelers or reasons for its arrival at the
[00:05:10] stations. In light
[00:05:13] of these complaints, the Syrian Petroleum
[00:05:16] Products Company announced conducting extensive
[00:05:19] tests on samples from various stages
[00:05:22] of the supply chain and said
[00:05:25] that the tested samples were compliant
[00:05:29] with specifications. However, the Ministry
[00:05:32] of Energy opened a broader investigation
[00:05:36] path, as the Minister of Energy,
[00:05:39] Mohammed Al-Bashir, assigned his assistant
[00:05:42] for oil affairs to follow up on
[00:05:46] the issue in the field and review
[00:05:49] the stages of import, inspection,
[00:05:52] receipt, storage,
[00:05:57] transportation, and distribution, leading
[00:06:00] to the determination
[00:06:02] If the tested
[00:06:09] explained? A citizen asks, and is
[00:06:21] the defect related to a specific
[00:06:25] shipment, or a specific stage,
[00:06:44] questions, perhaps the most prominent
[00:06:47] of which is: Will the problem recur,
[00:06:49] or will it be the last?
[00:06:53] And who will bear the responsibility?
[00:06:57] For trust is not restored by
[00:07:00] promises, but by oversight that prevents
[00:07:12] So, the story of the red
[00:07:15] gasoline or adulterated gasoline, we put
[00:07:19] it on the table tonight
[00:07:22] and discuss member of the
[00:07:26] my esteemed guests. With us
[00:07:30] is Mr. Mohammed Salem Wahab, member of
[00:07:33] the Damascus Chamber of Commerce. Welcome.
[00:07:37] Mr. Khalid Jamal Al-Khalaf,
[00:07:41] People's Assembly,
[00:07:44] specifically member of the Energy
[00:07:48] Committee in the People's Assembly.
[00:07:51] Mr. Khalid, greetings to you,
[00:07:55] and welcome to our table.
[00:07:57] May God bless you. Also with
[00:08:01] us from Idlib is journalist
[00:08:05] Mohammed Al-Haj Kaddour. Greetings
[00:08:08] to you, Mohammed, and welcome to
[00:08:12] our table in this...
[00:08:15] From your side, you are also,
[00:08:19] as we learned, one of those
[00:08:23] affected by the adulterated gasoline
[00:08:26] or red gasoline. Your car
[00:08:30] broke down, as we heard.
[00:08:33] Let's understand more from you,
[00:08:37] Mohammed, what happened to you?
[00:08:40] Tell us about your experience.
[00:08:44] I mean, when did the car
[00:08:48] break down, how, and what exactly
[00:08:51] happened to you? Okay, all
[00:08:55] greetings to
[00:08:58] evening. First of all, before
[00:09:01] I was a journalist, I was a
[00:09:05] citizen affected by the gasoline
[00:09:07] or adulterated
[00:09:11] suffered, as thousands of citizens did,
[00:09:14] from the disruption of our work
[00:09:18] and the exorbitant maintenance costs.
[00:09:22] Of course, about ten days ago,
[00:09:26] or less, between a week and
[00:09:29] ten days, for
[00:09:32] I had a problem with
[00:09:35] my car. And honestly,
[00:09:39] I usually fill up at good
[00:09:43] gas stations because I believe that
[00:09:46] gasoline could not be adulterated
[00:09:50] or tampered with. And by God,
[00:09:52] we Syrians always have a conviction
[00:09:56] about a certain gas station or
[00:10:00] something, and we are used to
[00:10:03] filling up from there. So
[00:10:07] I was surprised that after a
[00:10:10] day or two,
[00:10:20] and of course we were working
[00:10:24] on a documentary with the Italians
[00:10:27] about Syria, then we broke
[00:10:30] down on the road, took the
[00:10:34] car to the mechanic, and were
[00:10:37] stuck for two or three
[00:10:41] days, and then the engine was
[00:10:45] removed, and he told us the
[00:10:47] reason was the gasoline. Honestly,
[00:10:52] said no, it can't be the
[00:10:56] gasoline, and maybe
[00:10:59] already faulty or something.
[00:11:02] But when we fixed it and
[00:11:05] refilled it with gasoline, and we
[00:11:09] started driving again, and then it
[00:11:12] stopped, the car broke down again,
[00:11:16] and we removed the engine again.
[00:11:19] I spent about $1500 on the
[00:11:22] car engine within a week. These
[00:11:25] are the exorbitant costs that disabled
[00:11:29] my work, which I consider very
[00:11:32] important, and during this period, it
[00:11:36] was not only beneficial for me
[00:11:40] personally, but also for the
[00:11:43] country, because it was a
[00:11:47] very important film, and a
[00:11:51] very large part of it was
[00:11:55] interrupted. So, of course,
[00:11:58] I went to the mechanic
[00:12:01] for the second time and asked
[00:12:04] him what the reason was,
[00:12:08] and he told me it was
[00:12:12] the gasoline, and then he showed me the
[00:12:15] color of the gasoline, how
[00:12:19] red it was, and he explained
[00:12:22] to me. Of course, this
[00:12:28] trust him, and he is very skilled.
[00:12:31] He used to work at car
[00:12:35] dealerships, and he told me that this gasoline
[00:12:39] is not properly
[00:12:41] refined, and this problem is not
[00:12:44] only yours, and he showed
[00:12:48] me about 30 cars waiting
[00:12:52] at his place. And he said
[00:12:56] that this gasoline, because it is
[00:12:59] not properly filtered or, let's say,
[00:13:03] well-refined, it still contains
[00:13:06] gummy substances. These substances
[00:13:10] lead to clogging the car's fuel
[00:13:13] injectors and stopping the valves. He
[00:13:17] showed me the internal parts of
[00:13:20] the car, how frozen they were
[00:13:23] due to this gasoline, and
[00:13:26] he told me that as long
[00:13:30] as you are driving, the car
[00:13:34] will work, but when you turn
[00:13:38] off the car and it cools
[00:13:42] down, these substances freeze
[00:13:45] and seize the internal parts of
[00:13:48] the engine, so
[00:13:52] again. And when I called
[00:13:56] my friends, many of them
[00:14:00] told me about the same cases
[00:14:03] happening to them, and yesterday
[00:14:06] I went to Saramda to get
[00:14:09] a car part, and I found
[00:14:13] that if you want to repair
[00:14:16] your car, you might have to
[00:14:20] wait a week or more, unless
[00:14:23] you have a mechanic friend
[00:14:27] or acquaintance. It's a very
[00:14:31] big problem due to the gasoline
[00:14:34] problem. Everyone is saying the
[00:14:37] same thing. Yes. And
[00:14:41] then we are surprised that,
[00:14:44] I mean, why did the Ministry
[00:14:47] of Energy or the Syrian Oil
[00:14:51] Company only act yesterday?
[00:14:55] Then they talk about committees
[00:15:01] And this
[00:15:04] occurred, I
[00:15:06] can only speak for myself,
[00:15:10] but my situation represents tens
[00:15:13] of thousands of citizens. I met
[00:15:16] people yesterday who had motorcycles,
[00:15:20] and you know, we have low
[00:15:24] income levels, and people are
[00:15:28] poor and depend on motorcycles
[00:15:32] whatever. All of this was
[00:15:36] disrupted. Well, all of it was
[00:15:39] disrupted because of this gasoline,
[00:15:42] because of the greed of some
[00:15:46] people, we don't know the reason.
[00:15:49] Until now, no announcement
[00:15:54] and citizens don't know what is
[00:15:57] happening or when this issue will
[00:16:01] be resolved. I mean, my car
[00:16:05] is now repaired, I imagine,
[00:16:08] and I am not going back
[00:16:12] in it. I don't know what
[00:16:16] will happen. Okay, Mr.
[00:16:20] Mohammed, people are being given
[00:16:23] adulterated gasoline. Why? Where
[00:16:26] is it coming from? Why
[00:16:30] are people being
[00:16:34] gasoline? First of all, the
[00:16:46] is the owner of an investment
[00:16:50] project. And this project,
[00:16:53] to succeed, depends on
[00:17:08] very expensive, and surely the
[00:17:11] car owner or driver or anyone
[00:17:14] who wants to fill up with gasoline will
[00:17:18] go and look for the station
[00:17:22] with the correct measurement and
[00:17:25] fill up from there. What does the citizen
[00:17:29] know if the measurement is correct
[00:17:32] at this station? Now, 100%
[00:17:35] it will be clear to him,
[00:17:39] and he will know. So
[00:17:42] now, from any car today, you
[00:17:46] have a mileage counter in it,
[00:17:49] and he knows what he has
[00:17:53] spent. So when he goes
[00:17:56] to fill up
[00:17:59] he knows if the station's measurement
[00:18:02] is correct or not. And
[00:18:06] you have the
[00:18:10] second part: the quality of
[00:18:13] the material. Now, the
[00:18:21] Services Directorate to follow up
[00:18:25] on the measurement at all stations
[00:18:28] in all Syrian governorates. The
[00:18:32] Energy Services
[00:18:36] responsible for monitoring the quality of
[00:18:39] the material when it arrives at
[00:18:42] the station and monitoring the
[00:18:46] measurement. Now, the Syrian Oil
[00:18:49] Company, SPC, is the one
[00:18:52] that supplies the material and
[00:18:55] delivers it to the stations
[00:18:59] through tankers from Baniyas
[00:19:03] refinery or Homs refinery and delivers
[00:19:06] it to the
[00:19:10] station. So, when this material
[00:19:13] is good, surely this
[00:19:15] second part that we are talking
[00:19:19] about, when the material is
[00:19:23] good, then this station project
[00:19:27] is based on these two things.
[00:19:30] It must have a correct measurement
[00:19:34] The correct measurement, most stations
[00:19:37] today rely on this story,
[00:19:41] because it is a reason for
[00:19:45] its success in this investment
[00:19:48] project. And second, the material,
[00:19:52] but he has no power
[00:19:55] over the material. Why? Because
[00:19:59] the sole source of the material
[00:20:03] in all of Syria is the SPC, the
[00:20:15] delivers it to the citizen.
[00:20:19] Okay, so now, as we
[00:20:23] heard, an investigation committee
[00:20:26] has been formed regarding what happened.
[00:20:29] Where should this committee
[00:20:32] start its investigation in your opinion?
[00:20:35] This committee
[00:20:38] starts from Baniyas refinery, which
[00:20:43] of the problem. Is it specifically
[00:20:47] Baniyas refinery? Now, we have
[00:20:50] Baniyas refinery and Homs refinery, for sure,
[00:20:54] but this material, when it first
[00:20:57] came out, which is the faulty
[00:21:00] material, was loaded into tankers
[00:21:03] from Baniyas and emptied
[00:21:07] into all the stations of Taybeh
[00:21:11] company in all governorates. So,
[00:21:14] this is the
[00:21:18] this issue is a reason
[00:21:21] and a measure taken by the officials. Of
[00:21:26] before I came to the interview
[00:21:29] with the head of
[00:21:32] is, what happened? Surely, yes,
[00:21:35] we are following it. Okay,
[00:21:39] what did you
[00:21:41] We are waiting for statements
[00:21:45] from the responsible authorities, from
[00:21:48] the regulatory authorities present.
[00:21:51] Brother, today, after
[00:21:54] 15 years of revolution, and
[00:21:58] thank God, God blessed us with
[00:22:01] victory and liberation. I must
[00:22:05] deal with the opposing
[00:22:08] government entity, whatever
[00:22:12] it may be, a ministry,
[00:22:15] etc., with credibility. I
[00:22:19] must ensure that anything
[00:22:22] issued by them is
[00:22:26] truthful with me so
[00:22:29] that I can accept
[00:22:32] it. Why should I go
[00:22:35] out or even conduct an
[00:22:39] investigation behind their back?
[00:22:42] He is present here in
[00:22:46] this place as a good
[00:22:48] and revolutionary person, and
[00:22:51] the one who put him
[00:22:55] in this place also seeks
[00:22:58] for this country to
[00:23:01] be in the best possible
[00:23:05] state, to advance the
[00:23:08] wheel of production and
[00:23:11] improve
[00:23:13] the economy in Syria.
[00:23:17] From this place, allow
[00:23:20] me, if you please,
[00:23:23] without interruption. I demand
[00:23:27] President Ahmed Al-Shara to
[00:23:30] issue an urgent decision to
[00:23:34] dismiss Mr. Qablan from
[00:23:37] this position. He caused a
[00:23:41] lot of damage to the Syrian
[00:23:44] people, and to the
[00:23:47] vehicles, whether motorcycles or
[00:23:51] cars of Syrian citizens, and
[00:23:55] even at the government level.
[00:23:58] This is something no one can
[00:24:01] deny. His offensive statement
[00:24:04] to the Syrian people during
[00:24:07] the past period, and as one
[00:24:11] of the representatives
[00:24:18] did not accept his apology.
[00:24:22] Why insult me and then
[00:24:26] apologize? You apologize to a
[00:24:29] whole people, to the Syrian
[00:24:32] Oil Company.
[00:24:36] they reach them and
[00:24:39] that there are clear
[00:24:44] all these questions. I
[00:24:47] will return to you, Mr.
[00:24:51] Khalid. Mr. Mohammed,
[00:24:54] Mr. Khalid touched on
[00:24:58] a point where there might
[00:25:01] be some
[00:25:05] lack of clarity now. How
[00:25:10] refinery have maintenance going
[00:25:14] on, and yet, as you
[00:25:18] said earlier,
[00:25:20] this gasoline that reached
[00:25:23] the stations could have come
[00:25:27] from it? No, sir, this
[00:25:31] is confirmed. Why? Because
[00:25:40] were loaded from Baniyas.
[00:25:45] Baniyas. All the tankers
[00:25:49] that were loaded
[00:25:52] had maintenance work. Now,
[00:25:55] this issue the SPC
[00:25:59] knows. They might have brought
[00:26:02] it. What confirms to
[00:26:06] you that the invoices
[00:26:10] came out? All the
[00:26:13] tankers. We are talking about
[00:26:17] responsible
[00:26:20] you have an invoice
[00:26:23] with you. Now, I
[00:26:26] have the invoice from
[00:26:30] Homs with
[00:26:40] me. It delivered
[00:26:43] material to a station
[00:26:46] in Saidnaya. Okay. Because
[00:26:50] of this procedure that
[00:26:53] I told
[00:27:00] drivers to do, this
[00:27:05] the station, and the material arrived
[00:27:09] yesterday at one
[00:27:13] o'clock. There is no invoice
[00:27:16] that came out of
[00:27:20] Baniyas that you
[00:27:24] have. No, I don't
[00:27:27] have it now, but
[00:27:31] all the tankers are
[00:27:34] there. You have a
[00:27:38] station in
[00:27:41] There are six tankers
[00:27:46] at Taybeh station,
[00:27:49] and the Energy Services
[00:27:53] Directorate for monitoring
[00:27:55] and quality checked
[00:27:58] them and took samples
[00:28:02] from them. They have
[00:28:05] been standing for five
[00:28:09] days. They took samples
[00:28:12] from them, and these
[00:28:16] samples turned out to be
[00:28:19] As private stations, a book of conditions was issued,
[00:28:23] a book of conditions was issued almost six months ago. This book
[00:28:26] of conditions contains conditions that are meant for you
[00:28:30] to obtain a license
[00:28:32] to license a station. This book of conditions, the conditions
[00:28:36] in it are not feasible on the ground
[00:28:40] for the existing stations, and we appealed to the Ministry of Energy
[00:28:44] that this should exclude existing stations
[00:28:47] from six months ago until now. A study was submitted
[00:28:51] and they are supposed to approve this study and exclude
[00:28:54] the existing stations from these conditions,
[00:28:58] which are not feasible. Well, and until this moment, there has been
[00:29:03] issue that I just talked about, regarding you have
[00:29:07] a problem, if you notice, the crisis started
[00:29:11] about six months ago.
[00:29:14] After the liberation, there was no crisis. Why was there no crisis?
[00:29:18] Aleppo and the countryside of Aleppo and Hama and the countryside of Hama
[00:29:21] are now facing fuel crises that are much worse than
[00:29:25] the crisis that happened about six months ago, almost,
[00:29:29] which is exactly a crisis where there was no diesel or gasoline.
[00:29:32] Well, there is a shortage of material, meaning 100% shortage of material.
[00:29:36] From after the liberation, there were no crises. Aleppo and the countryside
[00:29:39] of Aleppo, and Idlib and the countryside of Idlib, and Hama and the countryside
[00:29:43] of Hama were being supplied by private companies
[00:29:46] through the crossings coming from Turkey. So
[00:29:50] this was relieving pressure on the Syrian Petroleum Company.
[00:29:53] Exactly. And now, after the liberation of the north,
[00:29:56] the burden increased. You know, before I came
[00:30:00] to you, and Professor Khaled knows this, one of
[00:30:03] the station owners spoke to me and said, "Deir ez-Zor
[00:30:07] received six requests." Um, two
[00:30:10] gasoline requests and four
[00:30:14] I don't know if
[00:30:16] what you're saying about a shortage.
[00:30:19] of material. Is there a shortage, Professor Khaled, at your place?
[00:30:23] Yes, yes, and there are queues at Sidcup and at
[00:30:31] the material. In addition to gasoline, diesel.
[00:30:34] Um, there is a shortage of diesel in Deir
[00:30:45] Muhammad? In Idlib, there is a big shortage
[00:30:48] of diesel. We can't fill up with gasoline, and there is no
[00:30:51] diesel. So life is stopped,
[00:30:54] and everyone here is asking, "Brother, where
[00:30:58] is the government? Let it explain to us what's happening."