{"id":10260,"date":"2017-09-14T19:04:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10260"},"modified":"2017-09-14T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:04:40","slug":"how-petrotrin-was-defrauded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10260","title":{"rendered":"How Petrotrin was defrauded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Anna Ramdass<br \/>\nSeptember 14, 2017 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20170914\/news\/how-petrotrin-was-defrauded\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p>COLLUSION.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10260\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/petrotrin.jpg' width='150' height='113' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='How Petrotrin was defrauded' \/><\/a>This was how State-owned Petrotrin was defrauded of close to $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Details are contained in the August 2017 report by Petrotrin&#8217;s internal audit committee which unearthed the \u201cfake oil\u201d scandal.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe report stated the fraud was facilitated by a Petrotrin employee (named)\u2014and also contained the GPS records for the employee&#8217;s vehicle which showed the employee spent over five hours on one occasion at the offices of the \u201cOperator\u201d\u2014A&#038;V Drilling&#8217;s Penal head office\u2014when there was no need to. The employee visited the office on nine recorded occasions for the period January to June.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated the employee had no reason to visit the Operator&#8217;s office, as his jurisdiction was limited to the Operator&#8217;s sales tank farm facilities. The report described these visit as \u201csuspicious\u201d and as a \u201cpossible indicator of collusion\u201d between the Operator and the employee.<\/p>\n<p><I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20170914\/news\/how-petrotrin-was-defrauded\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Ramdass September 14, 2017 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com COLLUSION. This was how State-owned Petrotrin was defrauded of close to $100 million. Details are contained in the August 2017 report by Petrotrin&#8217;s internal audit committee which unearthed the \u201cfake oil\u201d scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,178,1103,7],"tags":[44,610,1299,763],"class_list":["post-10260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-media","category-oil-and-gas","category-politics","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-express","tag-fraud","tag-petrotrin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10261,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions\/10261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}