MUSCAT: Over OMR190,000 worth of administrative fines have been recovered by the Public Authority for Consumer Protection in the first eight months of this year.
The total administrative fines of violations recorded by PACP from a number of commercial establishments around the Sultanate has reached OMR194,985 from January to August 2017.
Majid Marhoon Al-Ibri, Director of the Finance Department, said: “The fines ranged from OMR50 to OMR2,000, imposed on violations committed by various commercial establishments, which exceeded 1,300 violations.
Violations registered by PACP ranged from not issuing a bill of purchase and raising prices without obtaining approval from the authorities, to differences in prices of what is written on the commodity and what is registered on the checkout till.
