HAVANA, Nov 23, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Cuban capital has
reported a drastic increase in electricity fraud this year, a municipal
government official said on Tuesday.
More than 5,800 cases of electricity fraud have been detected in Havana
in the first ten months of this year, greatly exceeding the number of
over 100 cases discovered in the same period of the previous year, said
Inaudis Mora, director of the Electric Union in Havana.
Under a law signed by the Council of Ministers, the violators are
punished with fines of 500 pesos (20 U.S. dollars), with their
electricity supply cut off 72 hours.
If the offender relapses, the fine is 1,000 pesos (40 dollars) and a
longer period of service suspension. A permanent file for electricity
fraud will be opened against the offender.
According to Rolando Hernandez, an expert from the electricity company
of Havana, more than 11 million megawatt-hours of electricity were
recovered after the exposure of the violations.
Havana consumes a quarter of the country's energy, while the residential
sector uses 50 percent of that proportion."
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