In order to reduce costs, the restaurant owner has repeatedly reduced the value of the natural gas meter with others, stealing natural gas worth about 100,000 yuan. On January 6, the Changjiang Daily-Changjiang Net reporter learned that restaurant owner Wang (a pseudonym) was sentenced to 3 years in prison for theft by the Hongshan District Court and fined 10,000 yuan.

In May 2017, restaurant owner Wang met Xiong (a pseudonym) at a party. Xiong is an employee of the Wuhan Natural Gas Company and is responsible for the operation and scheduling of the Hankou gas pipeline. He told Wang that he can lower the data on the natural gas meter and guarantee that he will not be discovered.

In September 2017, in order to reduce restaurant expenses, Wang took the initiative to contact Xiong to meet in the store, and negotiated with Xiong that Xiong was responsible for reducing the restaurant’s natural gas meter data, and Wang would reduce the price according to the lowered natural gas market price. Half paid to Xiong as compensation.

From October 2017 to February 2019, Xiong rushed to the natural gas company's meter reader every month to lower his natural gas meter data at Wang's restaurant. After each downgrading of the natural gas meter data, Xiong sends the values before and after the meter adjustment to Wang, and Wang arranges restaurant accountant Zhang (surname Hua) to transfer the remuneration to Xiong's designated bank account. The three shareholders of the restaurant will distribute dividends according to the proportion of their capital contributions for the money that the restaurant spends less after the monthly adjustment. Accountant Zhang’s wife is also a shareholder of this restaurant. In order to get more dividends, Zhang still transfers the stolen money according to the agreed method when he knows the restaurant has stolen natural gas.

In September 2018, Wuhan Natural Gas Co., Ltd. began to remotely monitor the display data of all industrial and commercial gas meters, and found that there were abnormal data on several gas meters, and the counts in the next hour were smaller than the counts in the previous hour. According to the situation, comparing the monitoring data and the gas usage data, it was learned that some users had reduced the metering records of the natural gas meters and stole natural gas.

In March 2019, Wuhan Natural Gas Co., Ltd. reported to the public security organ that about 10 natural gas users had stolen natural gas, and Wang’s Nanhu branch was among them. As of the incident, Wang and Xiong had committed 18 crimes and conspired to steal more than 30,000 cubic meters of natural gas, worth more than 100,000 yuan.

Recently, the Hongshan District People's Court sentenced Wang to three years in prison for theft and fined him 10,000 yuan. Zhang was sentenced to two years in prison for the crime of concealing and concealing criminal proceeds, with a probation of three years, and a fine of 5,000 yuan. Xiong and others have all been arrested and dealt with separately.