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MoICT Announce Details of Hamala Warehouse Case

09-06-2021

The Lower Criminal Court headed by Judge Mahmoud Al Siddiqi, issued its ruling in Case No. 07202003518, known as the Hamala Warehouse Case, while the Criminal Execution Prosecution assigned the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism to confiscate and destroy spoiled and expired foodstuffs, the subject of the aforementioned case and at the expense of the convicts.

The details of the case indicate that the defendants knowingly possessed, traded and sold spoiled, contaminated and expired foodstuffs. The defendants changed the expired dates on the foodstuffs and placed valid dates on them.

The Defendants in the case were sentenced with varying verdicts, which included imprisonment from three to five years, fines from BD2,000 to BD5,000, and permanent deportation.

The court ordered to confiscated the items, amounting to 94,000 food products, to destroy it and the company's registration was permanently written off from the records of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.. ​