멕시코 당국은 페멕스가 운영하는 송유관에 구멍을 내거나 내부 직원들과의 공모로 몰래 빼돌려지는 석유가 연간 30억 달러(약 3조4000억원)에 달하는 것으로 추산했다.
The Mexican authorities estimated that the oil, which was secretly siphoned off by drilling a hole on a pipeline run by Pemex or conspiring with insiders, was worth USD 3 billion (KRW 3.4 trillion) a year.