KUWAIT CITY, July 8: Director of the Commercial Control Department at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Faisal Al-Ansari, announced that the department identified 1,906 violations between March 20 and June 25.

Al-Ansari detailed in a statement to a local daily that the ministry's inspectors conducted 1,459 inspection tours across local markets in various governorates of Kuwait during this period. The violations ranged from commercial fraud and issues related to commercial licenses and pricing to counterfeit goods, state-subsidized products, and car rental services.

To bolster its inspection efforts, the ministry has developed a plan to increase the number of inspectors. In cooperation with the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, 122 male and female inspectors have been trained and will soon join the Commercial Control and Consumer Protection Sector. Additionally, the ministry is coordinating with the Public Authority to offer year-long training courses for assistant inspectors who hold high school diplomas. The ministry aims to appoint 57 new inspectors in the control sector by September.

The Ministry’s emergency inspector team operates during holidays, receiving consumer complaints across all governorates. The ministry also deploys a team of female inspectors to intensify inspections of women’s salons, verifying prices, product origins, and expiry dates. Counterfeit products have been seized, and seizure reports have been prepared, with violators referred to the Commercial Prosecution.

Al-Ansari emphasized the ministry's ongoing inspection tours in local markets to monitor products, including clothing, furniture, accessories, perfumes, sweets, children’s toys, food, restaurants, and juice markets. The ministry is dedicated to detecting and seizing counterfeit products, preparing seizure reports, and ensuring consumer protection.

He concluded by reaffirming the ministry's commitment to enhancing its efforts to protect consumers and enforce the law against violators.