Non-compliance with product prices: five shops sealed, their owners sent to community service
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Boulmiougou district, from Zongo to Zaktouly: Five businesses closed for illicit price practices, four requisitioned for community service work (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
The Mobile Brigade for Economic Control and Fraud Repression (BMCRF) closed five businesses in the Boulmiougou area of Ouagadougou for illicit pricing and failure to display prices, including two cement shops selling well above the official price. Four offenders were assigned to community service…
Ouagadougou: five shops closed, four people requisitioned for community work (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
The BMCRF, Burkina Faso's economic control unit, closed five shops in Boulmiougou (Ouagadougou) for illegal pricing and failure to display prices, including two cement stores selling above the official price. Four offenders were requisitioned for community work.
BMCRF: Five shops closed and four offenders assigned to community service (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
The BMCRF conducted an operation in Boulmiougou (from Zongo to Zaktouly) that led to the closure of five businesses, three shops selling everyday consumer goods and two cement stores, for illegal pricing and failure to display prices. Four offenders were assigned to community service.
Speculation on everyday consumer goods: shops closed, eight traders conscripted for community service (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
The BMCRF sealed eight shops selling cement and everyday consumer goods in Ouagadougou, between Saaba and Gampela, for breaching price regulations. Eight traders found guilty of illicit practices were conscripted for community service.
Non-compliance with product prices: five shops sealed, their owners sent to community service (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
The Mobile Economic Control and Fraud Repression Brigade (BMCRF) sealed five shops in the capital and surrounding areas for failing to respect regulated prices of cement and everyday consumer goods. Their owners were conscripted for community service.
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