Twenty-seven thousand liters of diesel and 1,000 liters of petrol seized: this is the balance sheet of the company’s activity Como Financial Policeas part of a control plan to combat fraud in the sector of excise duties and indirect taxes on fuel.
The Como GDF carried out checks on various road and motorway distributors in the provincechecking both the quantity of fuel supplied and the quality of the products through sampling sent to the Chemical Laboratory of the Customs and Monopolies Agency in Milan: during these checks, a chemical anomaly was detected in one of the samples taken, which appeared to be mixed.
For this reason, a joint intervention was launched by the Fiamme Gialle and the Como Customs and Monopolies Agency in the suspected distributor, and further sampling was analyzed in real time with the ADM Mobile Chemical Laboratory.
The analyzes confirmed the irregularities: in particular, diesel had a flash point of 40°C, while the standard requires a minimum of 55°C: a situation that increases the risk of fires during transport. Furthermore, the petrol had a lower octane number than declared, compromising engine performance and increasing harmful emissions.
At the end of the activity they were sealed 25 dispensers And four tanks seized containing 27,000 liters of automotive diesel And 1,000 liters of petrol “100 octane” non-compliant results.
The legal representative of the distribution plant was reported for “fraud in the exercise of trade” and for “possession or use of products obtained from clandestine manufacturing or unauthorized mixing”.
The activity carried out, the result of the synergy also sealed with the signing of the memorandum of understanding signed at national level between the Customs and Monopolies Agency and the Financial Police, is part of a broader and more constant prevention mechanism of tax interests as well as to guarantee market transparency, as a barrier to potentially distortive commercial practices.
