{"id":555305,"date":"2026-04-28T16:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:06:40","slug":"oil-marketing-companies-filed-fake-claims-worth-billions-senate-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555305\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Marketing Companies filed Fake Claims Worth Billions, Senate Told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Standing Committee Cabinet Secretariat, chaired by Rana Mahmood ul Hassan, was told that multiple oil marketing companies filed fraudulent claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of Oil &amp; Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) told the committee that certain companies had demanded billions of rupees from the government despite holding no oil stock at all.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of the Establishment Division informed the committee that the government still owes oil marketing companies between 50 and 55 billion rupees for three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Committee members recommended that strict legal action be taken against all companies found to have submitted false or misleading claims to the government.<\/p>\n<p>KP gas shortage referred to OGRA<\/p>\n<p>ANP leader and Senator Aimal Wali Khan raised the issue of an ongoing gas shortage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the same session of the Senate standing committee.<\/p>\n<p>The committee directed the Chairman of OGRA to submit a formal report on gas load-shedding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa within a period of three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senate Standing Committee Cabinet Secretariat, chaired by Rana Mahmood ul Hassan, was told that multiple oil marketing companies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,4203,190796,190797,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-ogra","tag-oil-marketing-companies-omcs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}