News 24 | “Commerce” defames and fines celebrity and store owner 500,000 riyal for posting deceptive coffee ads that misled consumers

Today, Thursday, the Commerce Department released two rulings against a celebrity and a store owner, who violated the e-commerce system, posting ads on “Snapchat” about the coffee product that included deceptive and deceptive consumers, and a fine of 500,000 riyals.

She explained that the former had been fined 200,000 riyals and a temporary suspension from the practice of electronic commercial advertising for a period of two months, with the publication of the decision issued by the Committee to examine the violations of the electronic commerce system.

She added that the second offender was fined 300,000 rials and a temporary suspension from the practice of e-commerce for a period of two months, with the publication of the decision issued by the same committee.

The Department of Commerce and the Food and Drug Authority were The results of the investigations were previously announced in the aforementioned announcement last year.After summoning the people who were there and hearing their statements to verify the allegations received.

The ministry clarified that the advertising establishment had not obtained a license to carry on the activity and that the content of the advertisement included direct and indirect abuses and false descriptions of the products of competing commercial establishments.