The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) recorded its first conviction for the year when Camille Marcus was ordered to pay a $150,000 fine after she pleaded guilty to being in possession of illegal gasoline when she appeared in the Charity Magistrate’s Court.
A release from the GEA said that the court heard that on February 19, 2013, GEA inspectors discovered about 24 gallons of gasoline at Marcus’s residence. Laboratory tests confirmed that the fuel did not contain the required concentration of fuel marker and was therefore illegal.
When she appeared in court before Magistrate Sunil Scarce,
