Massive Tank Card Fraud: Man Is Said to Have Stolen 54,000 Liters of Diesel
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One litre of diesel for one euro: For months, a man is said to have tapped off cheaper fuel with an illegally obtained fuel card – he probably filled vehicles and canisters with others as well.
In Austria, a man took charge of the fuel discount himself. He refueled with a foreign card and then offered the fuel cheaply.
Austria has been moaning under the fuel prices for months. However, a 29-year-old living in Salzburg was able to fill up cheaper for months – thanks to a criminal trick. He abused the fuel card of a foreign forwarding company and filled up the vehicles of dozens of people, according to the prosecution's charges.
On Tuesday, the trial of a 29-year-old accused of a major fuel card fraud begins at the Land Court in Salzburg. As the Austrian Kronen Zeitung reports, the young man spent months organizing the filling of fuel at a paltry price of only one euro per liter, damaging the forwarding company for tens of thousands of euros. According to the indictment, the 29-year-old is currently [...]
He used a stolen Croatian carrier card to service his customers for several months, and the damage amounted to almost 70,000 euros.
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