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Fuel Pump Tinkering * USA - Georgia retail chain shuttered after investigation of
An anonymous caller tipped off the Georgia Department of Agriculture that one gas station was manipulating fuel pumps
GA,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -May 13, 2008: -- ... Later, an investigation into three fueling stations that had been bought and sold three times in as many years showed that truck stop operators intentionally and repeatedly programmed pumps to ring up 5 percent more fuel than motorists were pumping into their vehicles... Cisco Travel Plazas at Exit 1 and Exit 6 on Interstate 95 in Kingsland and St. Mary’s and the Cisco Express station at Exit 6 in Kingsland were all shuttered after the Georgia Department of Agriculture reportedly found motorists being shorted by one quart per every five gallons of fuel they pumped into vehicles. Investigators estimated in February that the shortage was about 5 percent... Complicating the matter is truck stop ownership. The Cisco franchises changed hands from Fairley Cisco to Cisco’s daughter in 2006 to Pakistani national Kuldeep Sekhon, who in turn sold the station’s to Biju Abraham in late 2007 or early 2008... Abraham represents Global Energy’s ownership, Abraham’s attorneys have said, who lives in India. In the Sekhon-Abraham transaction, Abraham actually had power of attorney for both seller and buyer in the $24 million transaction... The case may continue to shed new light on fraud and corruption in the small Georgia town... “They definitely got their hand caught in the cookie jar by at least 2005,” Brunswick, GA attorney Nathan Williams said. “It’s pretty remarkable.”...
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