KUWAIT CITY, Aug 1: The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ziad Al-Najem issued a decision to form a joint working team between the Precious Metals Department and the Commercial Control Department to reduce the phenomenon of fraud in precious metals. This team is headed by the Director of the Commercial Control Department Faisal Al-Ansari, and Khaled Mansour Al-Otaibi as his deputy, with nine ministry employees as members.

The decision defined the team’s responsibilities, which include conducting joint inspection tours between the Precious Metals Department and the Commercial Control Department at gold and precious metal jewelry shops and workshops to combat commercial fraud. The team’s activities will continue over three months from the date of the decision’s issuance. In a related context, sources revealed that the Commercial Control Inspection Teams at the Fish Market Center in the eastern region affiliated with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry continue their efforts and inspection campaigns to monitor the performance of offices selling imported fish.

They explained that one of the campaigns had resulted in the closure of an office after the office owner started the auction without obtaining the approval of the inspectors of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. This violates the regulations and laws in force in this regard, which prohibit the practice of fish brokerage without obtaining the approval of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

The sources added that the inspection teams also conducted several tours of school clothing stores in Hawally, resulting in the issuance of seven citations for various violations such as lack of price tags and absence of country of origin labels

By Marwa Al-Bahrawi

Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff