Many complaints have been raised in the Ministry of social
affairs in regard to violation in distributing aid to people in the coastal
areas of Syria. The violation reached to an extent of killing Ali Ballan, the
manager of public relation in the ministry.
According to the Ministry of Economy and Trade in Syria, some
traders started to forger some document to help them in distributing their
commodities, especially food like rice and sugar in the black market, as they
benefit from the international aid and using forged shipping document for large
amount of goods.
40 tons of rice was stopped in Lattakia to discover it was
heading toward a destination different from what it was presented in the
official documents.
Special sources reported to Zaman Alwasl that forgery intended
to change the direction from a city to another to be able to sell the goods to
traders according to prices they decide, ignoring the official prices set by
the ministry.
Another source from the Ministry of Economy and trade could not
tolerate the extent of smuggling and manipulating in refugee’s food said :
“transport companies make deals with importers to distribute goods to traders
or retail sellers who store and hide them from market to raise prices or
distribute them in other cities’ markets where it is difficult to follow and
get discovered.
“Regulations to fight corruption in Syria are not enough
deterrent to stop traders from doing so, to contrary, financial penalties encourage them to repeat
the offence and pay a small amount of money, which is not comparable to profits
they gain from cheating and fraud.” The same source added.
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original article, Translation by Yusra Ahmed
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