Pump attendant absconds with $1.1M from NA gas station

A pump attendant employed at M. Ali Gas Station at 13 Strand, New Amsterdam, Berbice, is believed to have absconded with $1,100,700 after collecting the money from  a fuel purchaser.

Feroze Ali, called Sammy, manager of a number of business enterprises, including a gas station and supermarket, said  that  the money that is missing came from the sale of  16 barrels of gasoline which a Berbice River customer purchased on Sunday.

The customer, he said,  would visit the New Amsterdam township twice monthly when he would order and uplift  fuel and pay for it later the same day.

On receiving the fuel on Sunday the customer returned  and paid the  pump attendant who had started to work there six weeks ago.

Ali said the gas station has four attendants  who  work on a twelve-hour shift with two on each shift.

“However since it was a weekend one pair of workers decided to work throughout the twenty-four hours so that the remaining two can have a day off.”

The businessman said when his father, Mohammed Ali, made checks on the business premises at 05:00hrs on Monday, both employees were on duty but when he arrived an hour later the suspect  was not at the location.

Ali said  checks were then made on his premises  to determine whether all monies were intact and it was then discovered that the $1,100,700 from the particular  fuel sale was missing.

After enquiring about his employee’s whereabouts, Ali said he was told that he  had gone to his grandmother’s home.

Checks there revealed that he had visited, but had left leaving his cellular phone behind.

The matter has been reported to the  Central Police Station in New Amsterdam and ranks are investigating.