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Media In / Riyadh 10 June 2018
During the month of Ramadan, the supervisory teams of the Saudi Ministry of Trade and Investment carried out more than 1,300 inspection visits to shops, gas stations, gold and jewelry stores in Makkah Al Mukarramah and Medina and the roads leading to it. The control teams control approximately 136 thousand products, contrary to specifications, and expired, and Maggoush, as part of the plans and programs seasonal work of the ministry and the season of pilgrimage and pilgrimage, which began pre-tours before the holy month of Ramadan. The seized products included expired foodstuffs, expired and used tires, fake and used electrical products, and counterfeit Saudi standards, fake and fake cosmetics and products, as well as the closure of non-calibrated fuel pumps and counter-calibration gold scales. Legal proceedings against them. The inspection tours, which were attended by the women’s control teams, showed the quality and abundance of the quantities of goods, foodstuffs and supplies in the markets and stores located in the two central areas of the Haramain and the shops on the roads leading to the two Holy Mosques and in the Ihram times. The Ministry continues to carry out its monitoring rounds for the Umrah season and the visit during the last ten days of the month of Ramadan, which aims to monitor the availability of goods, foodstuffs and supplies and check their validity, monitor cases of commercial fraud and price manipulation, and follow up the commitment of centers and shops to place price tags on the exhibits. Matching the price of the item with the prices of the accounting funds, and verifying the validity of the promotional offers, which are usually increased in conjunction with the increase in the number of pilgrims and visitors during the holy month, and taking legal action against any violation, or influences on free Supply and demand, and to ensure that businesses comply with the regulations, including the Commercial Fraud Control System, the Commercial Data System and the Trademark System. The ministry called on all consumers to cooperate with them, and to report trade violations through the ministry’s communications center on “1900” or through the application of a “commercial notice” or to submit their communications via the ministry’s official website.
