Plugging loophole

As gullible, uninformed shift supervisors, we became unintentional accomplices in the elaborate criminal exercise

The report titled “A password to fill up tanks at fuel pumps” (December 22) is heartening. Having worked for one of the largest oil companies, way back in the Sixties, I am aware that huge amounts of fuel were being siphoned off from the tankers transiting between terminals and fuel pumps, particularly the ones at what was then known as Palam airport. The stolen ATF (aviation turbine fuel, also known as superior kerosene) would be sold to colluding dealers and, at the airport end, less amount would be pumped into the aircraft than what was billed for.

The fact that