For underfilling of gasoline will be fined at least 500 thousand rubles

7 August 2018

About the new bill said Denis Manturov

The government plans to establish a penalty for filling stations which will be found nedolya fuel. The Minister of industry and trade Denis Manturov said in an interview with "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

The head of the Ministry of industry and trade said that the bill on toughening the administrative responsibility has been prepared. It specifies that upon registration of the incomplete filling of fuel to the gas station owner will have to pay a penalty of 1 % of revenue for the previous year. If the later violation is detected repeatedly, the amount of compensation will rise to 3 %.

Earlier similar measures have been proposed Rosstandart. Deputy head of Department Alexey Kuleshov in conversation with the correspondent of "Kommersant FM" said that the purpose of this proposal is not closing the dishonest gas station. Their owners must think about the fact that you should play by the rules and not to cheat customers. However, even the detection of fraud should not be the question of bankruptcy or closure.

Also Denis Manturov has defined the minimum size of fines: 500 000 rubles for the first time and 2 000 000 in case of repeated violation.

Mass underfilling of the fuel at the Russian stations obnarujila in the middle of summer. Scam revealed the Federation of Russian car owners. She conducted the audit showed that 76% of gas station the shortfall (i.e. the difference between paid and actually received) the fuel exceeds 1 %.

After that, Rosstandart suggested fine filling 1% of the annual turnover when first detected error and 3% in case of repeated violation. The introduction of such sanctions was supported by some vertically integrated oil companies (VINK), including RussNeft.