Fuel adulteration is pointed out as a challenge that affects companies, authorities and consumers in Brazil. Police operations carried out in recent years demonstrated that this practice is not isolated, but is part of an organized criminal system that operates throughout the country.
The president of the Legal Fuel Institute, Emerson Kapaz, explained that fraud infiltrates the entire production chain. According to him, the fuel station is only the tip of the iceberg, as organized crime is involved in distributors, transport companies and also in pumps that have chips for adulteration, allowing the increase of ethanol in gasoline.
Kapaz highlighted that consumers usually blame only the station where they refuel, but the reality is that adulteration happens at various stages of production and distribution. Organized crime operates from distributor to station, making the fight against the problem more complex.
The director of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, stated that it is necessary to advance in the way of seeing and combating this type of crime, defending integration between the responsible agencies.
