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Repression of fraud: the Ministry of trade saint 6000 nonconformist tales

Repression of fraud: the Ministry of trade saint 6000 nonconformist tales

Non-compliant sheets taken out of the commercial circuit. The National Fraud Control and Repression Brigade has just hand-picked 6000 of them. The suspect package was shipped to Equatorial Guinea and was to be delivered for disposal in the markets of Douala and other cities in Cameroon.

The vehicle carrying it was spun from Kyo-ossi, the last Cameroonian locality before Equatorial Guinea, on Sunday, June 30, 2019. His trip was interrupted by members of the National Brigade of controls and fraud suppression of the Ministry of commerce. After the first check, the absence of the certificate of conformity to the standards NC 100 and NC 101 on aluminum alloy sheets and coated steel, mandatory application standards in Cameroon was found. At the end of the second check the non-conformity of the thickness was noticed.

The ministry has recorded numerous bursts in recent months. Traders guilty of acts of deception on the goods were debunked in March 2019. Premises serving as a place for counterfeiting the expiration dates of food products were discovered in Yaoundé. The minister of commerce Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana had announced a complaint against the owners of this fake factory.

Contrôles et Répression des Fraudes