Petrol scam costs insurers millions

Insurers have been forced to shell out millions to drivers whose cars have been destroyed in a widespread petrol stretching scam.

Six hundred car owners successfully claimed for the costs to be covered and another 250 claims are being processed with average bills for repairs at about 4,000 euro.

The Consumers' Association told a parliamentary inquiry into the costly scandal that by last December 308 official complaints had been made to gardai about cars and motorbikes wrecked by contaminated fuel.

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