Tank Fraud: BKA Statistics Made in 2011 And Full Cut

Cones without pay - which is becoming increasingly popular in Germany. The BKA reported 2011 nine percent more fuel fraud cases than in 2010. The real figure is likely much higher.

The petrol prices rise, the drop in payment. The result: fuel fraud is booming. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded in 2011, exactly 85 065 cases with paying their gas station customers, about nine percent more than in 2010 (79 830). This is clear from the criminal statistics of the authority, however, covers only the officially reported cases. How the Internet portal reported auto.de, experts estimate the true figure to around 80 percent. Accordingly, the number of actual cases would be proud to 425,000.


Tank fraud strongholds 2011: Provinces
- 16th place: Bavaria (77.9 cases per 100,000 population)
- 15th place: Baden-Württemberg (78.0)
- 13th place: Lower Saxony (86.0)...


Tank fraud strongholds 2011 cities
- 38th: Bielefeld (64 cases per 100,000 population)
- 37th place: Munich (66)
- No. 36: Karlsruhe (67)
- Course 35: Stuttgart (69)...

The clearance rate in 2011 was, according to BKA statistics at 43.2 percent, virtually the same level as in 2010 (43.3 percent). The federal investigators estimated the damage to € 5.75 million (2010: 4.43 million euros). Compared to the provinces, there is the most fuel fraudsters - calculated on the population - in the city states of Berlin and Hamburg. Are the most honest of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg. Relatively small drop in the fuel fraud in Thuringia and Lower Saxony.

In cities with more than 200,000 inhabitants, Cologne is the stronghold of the tank fraud (244 cases per 100,000 inhabitants). Fourth place in Wiesbaden (190 cases). Berlin and Gelsenkirchen follow along with 180 to number three ahead of Hamburg (158). Cheated at least in Bielefeld (64), Munich (66), Karlsruhe (67) and Stuttgart (69). Who fills up with nothing in Cologne, also has a good chance of being caught: 2011 was the clear-up rate in the Rhine city at only 21.1 percent. In Berlin it was at 25.9 percent is not much better.