【2025 Energy Security】Solved successfully! A petroleum engineering company stole **energy** by altering flow meter data and other methods
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With the last fugitive abroad turning himself in, a contract fraud case in Hangjin Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in which flow meters were used to adjust flow rates and data was altered for illegal profit-making, was successfully solved, with all 27 suspects captured.
This post was last edited by zhoudingshengs on 2025-6-4 08:19. This case involved 16 provinces and cities including Henan, Sichuan, and Zhejiang, with the total value of the fraudulent transactions reaching 1.03 billion yuan... With the surrender of the last foreign fugitive, this contract fraud case in Hangjin Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which involved using flow meters to manipulate flow rates and alter data for illegal profit, was successfully resolved, and all 27 suspects were captured.
Abnormal data reveals black market theft: In March 2024, an anonymous complaint disrupted the status quo – a certain oil engineering company was stealing energy by altering meter readings and other methods. “The clue that flow meters, as the ‘iron judges’ of energy measurement, had been used in crimes immediately raised high alert among the police. The Hangjin Banner Public Security Bureau promptly established a special task force, marking the launch of a complex investigation that spanned multiple provinces and lasted nearly a year.
The special task force discovered that in recent years, a certain petroleum engineering company has entered into gas recovery agreements with numerous natural gas trading and transportation companies across the country. Behind the seemingly normal business operations, there are hidden tricks involved in upstream transportation where quantities are understated.
The adjustable flow meters, the frequently changing data curves, and the license plate information caused the case to reach a dead end for a time.
The seemingly ordinary remote control reveals technical secrets; the turning point lies in 5 10TB hard drives. These hard drives, which store transportation logs and settlement data, have become key to cracking the case.
There is a huge discrepancy between the settlement volume of the company in question and its actual gas purchase volume, and the abnormal transaction flows further reveal irregularities in the funds. Following the trails of capital flows and logistics, the police went to Shaanxi Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and other places to collect evidence, gradually uncovering the pattern of the criminal gang’s fabrication of data and inflation of gas supply volumes.
This post was last edited by zhoudingshengs on 2025-6-4 08:19. During a key search, an apparently ordinary remote control was found inside the suspect vehicle – it was the “invisible key” of the criminal gang.
The suspect can adjust and manipulate the flow meter data within a specific range via remote control. The suspect, Wang Moujun, confessed: “The volume of natural gas in one truck can be increased by 2-3 times.”
The last edit to this post was made by zhoudingshengs on 2025-6-4 at 08:20. It was found that this gang earned over 69 million yuan through such illegal methods; the combination of traditional investigation techniques and big data analysis proved to be key in exposing these technical disguises.