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A working group of Dushanbe police conducted a raid on the city's markets ahead of Idi Qurbon, as a result of which they identified ten traders who were selling meat at inflated prices. This was reported by the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the capital of Tajikistan on its Telegram channel .
The security forces did not specify how much the butchers raised the price of their goods, but only emphasized that the Dushanbe residents caught in unfair trade, “taking advantage of the needs of citizens and the approaching holiday of Kurban Bayram, arbitrarily raised the price of meat products in order to obtain financial gain.”
It is reported that protocols were drawn up against the violators under Article 555 ("Unreasonable price hike") of the Code of Tajikistan on Administrative Offenses. The sellers were fined. The amount of the fine is also not reported. But, according to the above article, for individual entrepreneurs working on the basis of a patent, a fine of 20 to 40 calculation indicators is provided – from 1,500 ($151.5) to 3,000 somoni ($303).
Representatives of the capital's Interior Ministry recalled that special working groups to monitor the situation in the markets were created in early March, on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan. The reason was numerous complaints from residents of the capital about artificially inflated prices. At the same time, similar cases were reported . Thus, several traders sold meat for 95-100 somoni (about $10) per kilogram instead of 75 somoni ($7.5).
The Dushanbe Department of Internal Affairs noted that raids and inspections of the city’s trading platforms will continue.
