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Binh Duong penalizes fraudulent gas stations

Binh Duong penalizes fraudulent gas stations

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 11:14 GMT+7

The Southern Binh Duong Province Market management Sub-department has found and subsequently penalized many gas stations that were cheating customers to gain illegal profits.

The common tricks are selling the wrong kind of gasoline and pumping less fuel than the volume that customers had paid for. Over the past seven months, the provincial market management sub-department inspected 53 gas stations and discovered 23 cases of violations of fuel trade regulations. Of the violators, eight had used tricks to sell gasoline at volumes that were lower than the amount paid for by customers, at deficiency rates from 2 percent to 8.3 percent. That means those fraudulent stations appropriated 2-8.3 liters of petrol per 100 liters of petrol sold to customers. The An Dien gas station, in An Dien commune, Ben Cat District, Binh Duong Province, where the highest deficiency rate was found, has been fined VND25 million (US$1,200) and had its business license suspended for six months. In addition, the station was forced to pay VND269 million ($12,900) to the State budget. This amount was determined to be the illegal profit gained from its trade fraud. Another establishment, Phuoc Teo Gasoline and Oil Private Enterprise, in Thai Hoa Town, Tan Uyen District, was fined VND25 million by the provincial People’s Committee in April after concerned agencies found the enterprise selling gasoline to customers at a deficiency rate of 6-7.2 percent. Like An Dien, Phuoc Teo had its license suspended for six months and had to submit VND145 million as illegal profit gained from the fraud. Another type of fraud involves selling the wrong type of fuel. For example, one station pumped gasoline from a cylinder labeled “A92 gasoline”, but the gas being pumped was actually A83 gasoline. Many other stations violated quality regulations. Two of these were found selling A92 gasoline, but tests showed that the fuel’s octane indexes were only 83.7 and 87.1. Meanwhile, two others sold diesel 0.05% S (which means the content of sulfur does not exceed 500 mg/kg) but the quality tests showed that the actual sulfur content was 600 mg/kg and 1,000 mg/kg, respectively. The provincial Department of Science and Technology has said it will publicize the list of fraudulent gas stations. Tran Van Tung, deputy head of the department, said trade fraud at retail gas stations often increases whenever the commissions they receive from fuel providers is lower than before.

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