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One dismissed, 4 sacked for fraud in gas filling

One dismissed, 4 sacked for fraud in gas filling

Friday, October 12, 2012, 12:30 GMT+7

The head of a gas station in Hoc Mon District, Ho Chi Minh City has been dismissed, along with two employees, for cheating customers. At another station, two more people were fired for the same offense. They have been disciplined after Tuoi Tre published an expose in which four filling stations in Ho Chi Minh City and another in Dong Nai were discovered cheating customers by manipulating the money indicators while serving drivers. Yesterday the disciplinary council of the Hoc Mon Trading Joint Stock Company met and decided to remove Le Van Dang from his post as the head of the Ba Diem 1 Station, at 66/7 National Highway 22, Ba Diem Commune, Hoc Mon District. Two of Dang’s employees, Nguyen Anh Man and Tran Minh Duc, were sacked as well. The company’s management said they will set up an inspection team to examine the operation of the station and will take measures to prevent fraudulence. The same day, Ta Thi Huong, the owner of the Nam Son Thanh Dat Station, at 102 Pho Quang, Ward 2, Tan Binh District, also fired two attendants, Nguyen Van Thai and Nguyen Dang Hanh for their tricks to appropriate money from customers. Huong said her station will pay compensation to customers who can provide proof of the fraud carried out by the station’s staff. In talking with Tuoi Tre, Duong Thanh Hoang, deputy head of the HCMC Market Management Sub-department, said that he has ordered the agency’s units to strengthen control over the operation of filling stations and will strictly punish any violations. As previously reported, Tuoi Tre discovered fraud at five stations, including the two above-mentioned ones and three others: 27/7 Station, at 624 Kha Van Can Street, Linh Dong Ward, Thu Duc District; Thien Ngoc Station, at 49 To Ky, Than Chanh Hiep Ward, District 12; and Nam Son Thanh Dat Station, at 102 Pho Quang, Ward 2, Tan Binh District.

Each of these stations employed the same trick: when a staff member began to fill a vehicle, another worker adjusted a button on the side of the gas cylinder to alter the money indicator to show an amount that was higher than the actual charge based on the volume of petrol that had been pumped into the vehicle’s tank.

On September 27 at Ba Diem 1, Man (who was sacked yesterday) was pumping and receiving money from customers while another staffer was in charge of the money indicator. A customer stopped at the station and asked for VND50,000 (US$2.4) worth of A92 gasoline, or 2.11 liters, since a liter costs VND23,650.

Man began filling the vehicle’s tank and when the money indicator displayed VND36,894, the other staff member pressed the “stop” button and then pressed VND50,000. The trick took less than two seconds and the driver lost VND13,000.

The same fraud was seen at the other stations in the investigation.

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