KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 27 -- Putrajaya has cut off a petrol station in Sungai Buaya, Nibong Tebal, Penang, from the Budi Madani fuel subsidy over suspected misuse that allegedly involved customers' MyKad details being used without their knowledge.

The Finance Ministry said its checks, triggered by police reports lodged by affected recipients, found more than 1,000 manual-bypass transactions involving over 100,000 litres of petrol and more than RM270,000 in subsidies.

"Any subsidy misuse is a betrayal of the goal of targeting subsidies, even more so while the conflict in West Asia continues to disrupt global energy supply and pressure fuel prices," the ministry said in a statement today.

It has barred the station from selling subsidised RON...