Controversy
On 29 May 2007, a contractor for VirCom EMS was sent by Mercury Energy to the home of Folole Muliaga to disconnect the electricity supply due to an unpaid power account. Muliaga was using a home oxygen machine which stopped working when the electricity was disconnected. There is speculation that Muliaga died as a result. However evidence suggests that Muliaga died of natural causes some 4 hours after the electricity was disconnected, not as a result of a lack of oxygen.
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