One of the Operação performed by Civil police and CPFL Piratininga identified, this Wednesday (25), more than 50 illegal energy connections in neighborhoods of Praia Grande (SP).
In all, 41 residential and commercial properties were inspected in the neighborhoods of Jardim do Trevo, Balneário Japurá, Ribeirópolis and Jardim Melvi.
Em 11 businesses, among wine cellars, bakeries, bars and markets, the teams also found fraud in internal facilities.
All irregularities were corrected by the distributor and investigations will be conducted by the police authorities.
In a press release, the CPFL Piratininga stressed invest continuously in advanced technologies to detect and combat fraud, such as real-time monitoring systems and the use of artificial intelligence to direct inspections more assertively.
In addition to these tools, the company has the collaboration of the population, encouraging anonymous complaints – which are essential to identify and prevent clandestine connections, energy diversions e meter manipulations.
Those illicit practices can cause short circuits, fires and even fatal accidents. In addition to security risks, fraud overload the power grid, causing instability in supply and harming essential services, such as hospitals and public safety.
To defraud ou steal energy are crimes provided for in the Penal Code, and the responsible by irregularities can be caught red-handed and will be criminally liable, with penalty that can vary from one to four years of detention.
Furthermore, they are also charged of fraudsters the energy values for the entire period of the irregularity.
As anonymous complaints can be done by “CPFL Energia” application or by website, clicking here.
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