An employee of Enel, an electricity concessionaire that supplies the São Paulo metropolitan region, was arrested this Thursday (12/11) after being caught charging R$2,500 to reconnect electricity to an address in Vila Mariana, south of the capital of São Paulo.
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The case was published on social networks by the deputy mayor of Vila Mariana, Rafael Minatogawa. In a video, he asks the dealership employee how he managed to “do things right” with the reconnection on Rua Sena Madureira. The suspect then responds that he charged R$2,500 to reconnect the connector to an address.
More than 800,000 properties remain without electricity in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, this Friday morning (12/12), almost 48 hours after the extratropical cyclone formed in the southern region of the country.
In a press release, the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) informed that civil police officers from the 16th Police District (Vila Clementino) arrested the company employee for the crime of passive corruption, in Manuel Vaz Square in Toledo.
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When contacted, Enel warned that emergency response services, such as repairs to the distributor’s network to restore energy, are not subject to individual costs for the customer.
“The company emphasizes that any requirement to pay for repairs on the distributor’s electricity network, in order to restore energy, is outside the company’s rules of conduct. In case of doubt, customers can contact Enel São Paulo’s service channels,” it said in a note.
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