According to the prosecutor’s office, the man, who is in his 40s and transports goods internationally within the European Union, misused his employer’s fuel card 38 times between September 2020 and November 2021 at a petrol station near Nagyatád, Hungary.
The accused filled 12,000 litres of fuel into barrels and cans instead of the lorry’s tank, and then sold it to acquaintances below the retail price.
The police caught the man as he was about to sell 415 litres of fuel to an acquaintance and recovered 220,000 forints (approx 600 euros).
The prosecution proposed that the court sentence the defendant to a term of imprisonment to be served for the crime of embezzlement of a substantial amount of money committed on a commercial scale and on a continuous basis.