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Media In / Agencies / Riyadh May 31, 2018
The Saudi Ministry of Trade and Investment has suspended six accounts in the social networking site “Instagram”, which promotes counterfeit and counterfeit goods of trademarks registered with the Ministry in coordination and cooperation with the competent authorities. The products offered included perfume and cosmetics, as well as clothing, shoes, watches, bags, gifts and more. This comes within the framework of the Ministry’s efforts to monitor and track infringing websites and accounts to protect and protect consumers’ rights from fraud and counterfeiting practices and to preserve the intellectual property rights of registered trademarks. Last week, the ministry announced the suspension of its website and its application, as well as five “Instagram” accounts promoting counterfeit and counterfeit products of registered trademarks. The ministry warns consumers against buying from anonymous pages and accounts in social networking sites, calling for purchases from electronic stores, accounts and pages that have a trade or registered record and have a “known” service certificate or internationally known sites, to ensure and preserve buyers’ rights. It also invited online store owners and marketers in all social networking sites to register for the free service “Maarouf” in their activities, which provides data for all registrars in this service at the ministry, which enhances reliability and credibility in their products and businesses, In the Kingdom and the views of dealers with the stores and the quality of their work to ensure easy access to the consumer. “Trade” prohibits the sale or marketing of counterfeit or counterfeit goods or goods through websites and social networking sites. This is a violation of the Commercial Fraud and Trademark Regulations, which carries penalties of up to three years’ imprisonment, fines amounting to 1 million riyals, Their countries and suspension and prevention of commercial activity. The ministry stressed the non-leniency in applying the legal sanctions on distributors of counterfeit and fraudulent goods through social networking sites and websites. It calls on all consumers to cooperate and report violators through the Communications Center on 1900, the application of a commercial notice and the Ministry’s website.
