A team of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection in a drive seized 15,000 liters of soybean oil from three warehouses at Pahartoli in Chattogram port city on Monday.

During a nationwide drive against hoarding edible oil by some unscrupulous businessmen, a team of the department raided Siraj Store and seized the oil from its three warehouses, said deputy director of Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection, Chattogram Foyez Ullah.

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Earlier, on Sunday, the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection in another drive seized 1050 bottles of edible oil kept hidden in a shop at Karnaphuli market and fined its owner Abdul Halim Tk 40,000 for hoarding oil.