Sharjah Municipality launches campaign against fake products

Mr. Fahad Shehail, Director of Consumer Protection Department said, "We observed a huge amount of fake products and famous trademarks in some of trade centers in Sharjah. However, when we arrest these products we receive complains from the shops owners that we arrested these products at, and they claim that they didn't know the fact of it being fake, and some of them also tries to manipulate the law by claiming that it's a "trading" product while it is "fake". On the other hand, some of those traders pretend that they didn't know that it's prohibited to sell such goods, in order to avoid facing legal fines."

He added, "Based on that, and according to the trading law nom 4 for the year 1979 of fighting trading fraud, and the federal law nom 37 for the year 1992 of the trademarks, we have started to organize a comprehensive campaign to fight trading fraud by sending an awareness generalization for all trading centers in Sharjah, to inform shops regarding dealing with fake trademarks and products, and to commit to the laws, and that they will be responsible about recognizing fake products and making sure of their products and its originality and reliability."

He added that Sharjah Municipality will give a limited period of time to the traders to discard the fake product, and that they will face penalties if any products found in there shops after this period.