PUTRAJAYA – The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry’s Selangor branch seized 1,944kg of subsidised cooking oil worth RM4,860 in a raid on a supermarket at Kota Warisan, Sepang, last Friday.
The ministry’s enforcement director Azman Adam said several receipts showing transactions of the goods were also taken from the premises in the 10am raid.
“The premises owner is suspected to have hidden packets of the subsidised cooking oil from customers, which is unethical, and storing them up in the premises,” he said in a statement here today.
Azman said that based on complaints, customers were only allowed to buy the subsidised cooking oil on the condition they buy other necessities at the store.
He said action has been taken on the premises owner under Section 19 of the Control of Supplies Act 1961 for putting illegal conditions on the sale of controlled goods.
He said the premises owner also failed to produce the declaration document to justify the amount of cooking oil available at the store.
If convicted under Section 22(1) of the act, Azman said the offence provides a fine of not more than RM1 million or jail not exceeding three years, or both.
He advised consumers to channel information related to misappropriation of controlled and subsidised goods by sending a message via WhatsApp to 019-279-4317 or 019-848-8000; email [email protected] or through the Ez Adu smartphone app; or contact 1-800-886-800 or the Enforcement Command Centre at 03-8882-6088. – Bernama, July 24, 2022
