A. M. 
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The Defensoría del Consumidor (DC), through its President Ricardo Salazar, has informed that 88 cases of different businesses have been sanctioned with fines, equivalent to a total amount of more than US$320,000, as a result of a price increase in the different products of the basic food basket.
These inspections are due to the message addressed by the President of the Republic of El Salvador to importers, distributors, traders and food wholesalers, where he denounced abusive practices such as unjustified price increases by some agents of the supply chain, whom he demanded to “stop abusing the salvadoran people or do not complain later”.
In this regard, the DC to date has accounted for more than 3,900 verifications to different agents in the supply chain, in addition, 125 investigations have been activated for indications of unjustified price increases, for which an abbreviated procedure has been initiated.
Likewise, the DC has intensified for the third consecutive day inspections nationwide to combat commercial practices that harm the pocket and the family economy of salvadorans in the marketing of products of the basic food basket.
For this reason, the president of the DC, leads the inspection operation in fruit, vegetable stores located in the municipal market of the district of Mejicanos Centro, San Salvador.
“We maintain coordination with the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), in order to communicate and transfer those cases in which we find this speculative behavior of prices”, said Ricardo Salazar.
Likewise, the president of the Defensoría del Consumidor, revealed that soon they will be providing the first results, in addition, he urged citizens to exercise their right to denounce to report establishments and merchants that unjustifiably increase the prices of food, necessities and essential services.
