On April 20, 2024, the Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People’s Committee issued Decision on sanctioning administrative violations No. 818/QD-XPHC for business households PHN (Hamlet TX1, Thanh Tan commune, Mo Cay Bac district, province Ben Tre) with a total fine payable to the state budget of: 224,276,517 VND, total value of violated goods: 377,300,000 VND.
Previously, through the implementation of professional measures, supervision, area management, combined with supervision on e-commerce platforms, Market Management Team No. 4 (Market Management Department of Ben Tre Province ) discovered PHN Business Household doing business on the e-commerce platform through livestream sales on TikTok and direct sales at the store. Here, there are goods that are smuggled and there are no invoices or documents proving the origin of the goods…
By March 28, 2024, Market Management Team No. 4 presides over the coordination of Market Management Teams No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 of the Market Management Department of Ben Tre Province and the Police Department to investigate crimes related to corruption, economics, smuggling, environment under Ben Tre Provincial Police, conducting inspections at PHN business households
| Authorities inspect goods at PHN Business Household (TX1 hamlet, Thanh Tan commune, Mo Cay Bac district, Ben Tre province) |
Through practice, the Inspection Team discovered that PHN Business Households are trading and selling 10,991 units of all kinds of products (cosmetics, beauty accessories, household appliances) circulating on the market with original labels in English. foreign countries, however there is no additional label in Vietnamese as prescribed by law; There are no invoices or documents proving the origin of the goods. The total value of infringing goods is over 377 million VND.
After that, Market Management Team No. 4 completed the paperwork and transferred it to the Director of Ben Tre Market Management Department and then submitted it to the Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee for a decision on sanction according to its authority.
On April 20, 2024, the Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People’s Committee issued a decision to impose a fine of more than 224 million VND on the above business establishment. At the same time, forced to destroy 4,581 units of products of unknown origin with a total value of infringing goods of more than 290 million VND; confiscated 6,410 units of smuggled goods with a total value of infringing goods of more than 86 million VND.
On April 22, 2024, the above business household received the penalty decision and completed the fine payment according to regulations.
