The Ministry of Commerce has defamed the owner of a store specializes in selling auto tires and oil, after a ruling convicting him of violating the Anti-Commercial Fraud Law, by offering and selling expired car tires and fake oil, which is not in compliance with the standard specifications in Al Awali district, Makkah.
The Ministry has published a summary of the judicial ruling, issued by the Criminal Court in Makkah, imposing a fine on the violator with the closure of the store for ten days, confiscation and destruction of the seized quantities, and defamation by publishing the verdict in two newspapers at the expense of the violator.
This comes as a continuation to the Ministry’s efforts to seize, confiscate and destroy all counterfeit and non-conforming goods, also all the items that are not in compliance with the standard specification, as well as to address those violating the Anti-Commercial Fraud Law, and to take the necessary measures against the violators, as the Anti-Commercial Fraud Law provides for imposing penalties of up to three years imprisonment, and fines up to one million riyals, or both, and defamation by publishing the verdict in two local newspapers at the expense of the offenders, also deporting the illegal labors from the Kingdom, in addition to preventing the violator from practicing the same trade activity.
The Ministry calls on all consumers to report their complaints to the Ministry's Consumer Call Center (1900), or through the application of a Commercial Violation Report, or via the Ministry's website.