Authorities of Rio de Janeiro close and sanction fuel stations following inspection
Brazilian fuel authorities carried out in mid-March an inspection of several fuel dispensing locations and found diverse illegal actions some of which merited closing, Brazil’s ANP regulator said.
Authorities closed a location in Duque de Caxias section of the city for operating without any valid license. Another station in the same area did not have any price display while a third one did not have the display showing the fuel distributor's brand name in the supplying pump.
In another area of Rio known as Nova Iguacu one station was found to be dispening shorter volumes of fuel than what the pump registered, a practice known locally as “short-pumping”.
