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Only 8.96% of fuel-theft complaints ended in convictions over six years, Recope says

From La Nación · () Spanish

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  • Recope said 86 of the 959 fuel-theft complaints it filed have resulted in a sentence.
  • The figures cover the six years since Costa Rica’s Law 9852, which criminalizes the theft and illegal introduction of petroleum-derived fuels, took effect in 2020.
  • The company said hundreds of cases remain active.

Only 86 of the 959 complaints filed by Costa Rica’s state oil company Recope over fuel theft have resulted in a sentence, according to figures cited by the institution.

That represents 8.96% of the complaints submitted during the six years since Law 9852 took effect in 2020. The law penalizes the theft and illegal introduction of petroleum-derived fuels and their mixtures.

Recope said hundreds of case files remain active. The figures were presented as the institution raised concern over the limited number of cases that have reached a sentence.

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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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