The National Police arrested a man who allegedly defrauded his company of 12,000 euros by refueling gasoline. Arrested person not authorized to refuel fueldeceived gas station employee enough to get benefits up to 118 times gasoline for his own vehicle.
At the end of 2023, those in charge of the Oriola farming community notified the National Police Station about a series of events that occurred throughout 2023 and, they told the agents, Agreement with a service station in Orihuela authorized employees can refuel company-owned vehicles to fulfill the duties assigned to them by the company.
The agreement with the service station means that authorized employees can refuel the company’s vehicles without paying the fuel fee, which is due at the end of each year, so that each worker refuels the vehicle and enters the station where the boxes are located. It is positioned to record both the liters supplied and the license plate of the vehicle being refueled.
In December last year, the company’s executives went to the service pay all money owedat that time he discovered that up to 118 unauthorized refuelings had been carried out, with a total value of just under 12 thousand euros, without knowing who or who they might be.
From then on, agents assigned to the Investigation Group of the National Police Station in Orihuela went to work investigating what had happened and gathering the necessary evidence to identify the perpetrator of the charges.
After collecting images from service station cameras They were able to identify the author of the scam He was one of the company’s employees, but he was also one of the workers. I had no authority To refuel any vehicle since one of their functions is not to drive them.
Investigators, who conducted a more detailed investigation and learned that the vehicles seen in the notes of the gas station employees on those days were not near the station in question and therefore could not be refueled, revealed how the alleged perpetrator of the incident went to the scene. He went to the gas station with his private vehicle, which was obviously refueling, but as if this was not enough, he increased the amount of gasoline by filling several bottles in the trunk and thus committed fraud of almost 12 thousand euros. . After refueling, he entered the station and told the cashier one of the company’s license plates, several of them alternately. To avoid raising suspicion.
National police have located a man alleged to be the perpetrator Moroccan national and 45 years oldHe arrested him for the crime of fraud and placed him at the disposal of the Orihuela Guards Deputy Court of Inquiry.