translated from Spanish: Tamaulipas gas station stole 10% fuel: Profeco

CDMX.- The owner of the Federal Consumer Attorney’s Office (Profeco), Ricardo Sheffield Padilla, reported on Monday about the discovery of a gas station in the state of Tamaulipas that stole two liters for every 20 that dispatched its customers. At the morning conference on Monday, November 18, Sheffield presented the already traditional “Who’s Who in Gasoline Prices” comprising November 7-13 last year.

The report exposed several service stations in Jalisco, Baja California, Campeche and Tamaulipas that were incompletely fueling their users. Sheffield detailed that on 11 November Profeco staff with Support from the National Guard went to a station in Campeche, which had refused to be visited by the unit, so twelve of its bombs were immobilized with seals. 

Ricardo Sheffield Padilla, owner of Profeco, released the information. Photo: Special

The next day, on November 12, 12 measuring instruments were immobilized at a Jalisco gas station that did not provide the complete litres to its customers. But the most alarming case was on November 13, when a gas station in Tamaulipas was detected to steal two litres from its customers for every 20 dispatched, which was applied by the eight hose pumps at the gas station.” During the stage, with the support of the public force, irregularities were detected in eight hoses due to missing from 659.77 to 1,955.77 milliliters in the office, so all the instruments of the establishment were immobilized,” all instruments of the establishment were immobilized,” all instruments of the establishment were immobilized,” Detailed.

Original source in Spanish