The Gabès Governorate announced today, on its official page, that a joint team comprising the Economic Control services and the security services (municipal police and public security) carried out, in the evening of Monday, February 23, 2026, a search of a dwelling in Gabès-city, where a van was intercepted while unloading 360 litres of subsidized vegetable oil.
After entering the dwelling and following consultation with the public prosecutor’s office, 240 litres of subsidized vegetable oil, stored in plastic containers, were seized.
The holder of the merchandise was placed in police custody by the security services, while the seized quantity — estimated at 600 litres — was reinjected into the legal distribution circuits.
Moreover, 1,008 litres of subsidized vegetable oil were also seized from a wholesaler, who allegedly concealed this quantity and refused to put it on the market. Note that the total quantities seized since the start of Ramadan thus stands at 3,264 litres.
