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Two lose job over air petrol theft at Vietnam airport

Two lose job over air petrol theft at Vietnam airport

Saturday, January 31, 2015, 10:57 GMT+7

Two employees of the company in charge of fueling airplanes at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport were dismissed on Friday after they were caught stealing aviation gasoline red-handed the same day.

Nguyen Xuan Duong and Nguyen Minh were caught transferring petrol they were supposed to use for planes at Tan Son Nhat to a truck parked just outside the airport early Friday morning, Hoang Manh Tuan, general director of Vietnam Air Petrol Co. Ltd. (VINAPCO), told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

Duong, 28, was a VINAPCO driver, while Minh, 39, was a pumping technician. The two had colluded with two outsiders for the theft.

At around midnight, Duong and Minh drove the fuel tanker truck to the perimeter of Tan Son Nhat and used a 100m-long fuel pipe to transfer the aviation gasoline to a truck parked outside, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

The outside truck was driven by Dang Tran Thanh Phong, 32, and Do Thanh Tung, 25.

When the theft was in progress, airport security officers showed up and arrested the four.

Duong and Minh had stolen 789 liters of aviation gasoline, worth more than VND15 million (US$699), before they were caught red-handed.

Tuan, the VINAPCO chairman, said the arrests were part of a month-long investigation between the company and airport security to crack down on the air petrol theft ring.

The case has been transferred to the Tan Binh District police.

Ho Chi Minh City police on Thursday also seized more than 20 30-liter cans of aviation gasoline which had been stolen from a tanker truck en route to Tan Son Nhat airport.

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