The Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime says that the situation on the sugar market has stabilized after a number of economic entities that excessively increased the sugar prices were fined about 100,000 lei overall.

During June 4 and 30, the Center checked 260 economic entities and identified 69 cases when the profit margin was too high. They applied fines of 200 to 1,000 lei in every case apart.

At the wholesale depots, the sugar is now sold for 10 lei – 10.8 lei a kilogram. On the country’s markets and in shops, the sugar costs up to 12 lei.

In order not to admit speculations in retail outlets, mobile working groups monitor daily the prices of the socially important goods such as sugar, flower, vegetable oil, rice all over the country.

The selling price of sugar early in June went up by 30%, to 15-16 lei// Reporter.MD


Publication date: 02 July 2008   

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