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Tanks a million: Italy police pounce on hacked petrol pumps

Published: 06 Feb 2019 - 06:16 pm | Last Updated: 04 Nov 2021 - 06:24 am
Representational image (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)

Representational image (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)

The Peninsula

Rome:  Italian police have seized two petrol stations in the city of Naples where the pumps had been tampered with to fool customers about the quantity of petrol they were getting.

At one petrol station in the southern city, which is known for rampant fraud even by Italian standards, police discovered a pump had been customised so that its counter could be activated by remote control, even without petrol being pumped.

The other had a hidden switch which activated the counter as soon as the nozzle was lifted, again without petrol coming out.