Yamanat – Special
“Yamnat” obtained documents revealing the intervention of the Minister of Industry and Trade in Sana’a, Muhammad Sharaf Al-Mutahhar, to enter shipments of Sarat brake oils in violation of the Yemeni specifications after they had been detained for several months.
Non-matching Matching
Document No. 674 issued by the Yemeni Authority for Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control on June 21, 2022 states that the car brake oil bearing the trade name SINTEC does not conform to the approved standard specification for the product according to the results of the tests shown in the table included in the attached document, in terms of:
– There is an increase in the rate of loss and evaporation of the sample beyond the limit allowed in the specification, with the necessity of the following:
* Writing the product name in Arabic next to English.
* Mention how to prevent the danger and toxicity shown on the statement card.
* Add the following warning data: (The effect of oil contamination or exposure to moisture on the tool. The effect of oil on painted surfaces), provided that it is added in Arabic or in both Arabic and English on the statement card.
The report stressed not to dispose of the shipment or part of it or take it to the market until the necessary legal procedures are completed regarding it, and to pledge to carry out technical procedures upon the next import, and you bear responsibility for violating this.
The beginning of the game
In another document issued on January 15, 2023, addressed by the Director of the Standards Department of the Yemeni Authority for Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control to the Dhamar Control Center, stating that the violations regarding automobile brake oil described in Report 1049 issued on June 20, 2022, were closed with the payment of a financial fine. The amount of 75 thousand riyals, as for the examination of losses by evaporation, is suspended and deleted in all updated international, regional and national specifications due to the inaccuracy of the examination applied internationally, and therefore it was suspended in the minutes of the committee charged with studying the problems of brake fluid, and it was deleted in the project to update the brake fluid specification submitted for approval.
Here the manipulation began to introduce a shipment of brake fluid, the violation of which required the re-export of the product or its destruction according to the system, because the high percentage of loss endangers the safety of the cars and their passengers. It is as if the safety of people and their money does not matter to the authority’s leaders as much as they care about collecting sums of money for violations that harm people.
Strange
What is strange is that, on the same document, on February 19, 2023, one of the authority’s leaders directed the director of the authority’s center in Dhamar to implement the opinion received from the Specifications Department regarding the shipment of violating brake fluid.
Minister Al-Mutahhar intervened
As the director of the Dhamar Center continued to refuse to release the shipment of violating brake fluids, the Minister of Industry and Trade, Muhammad Al-Mutahhar, who heads the Board of Directors of the Yemeni Authority for Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control, intervened and issued a decision to change the standard specification in a way that would lead to the removal of the violation and the inclusion of the shipment.
Minister’s decision
Pursuant to the decision of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Authority No. 69 of 1444 AH issued on May 12, 2023 regarding the adoption of Yemeni standard specifications, a new specification for automobile brake fluid was approved and the previous specification was cancelled, which is considered a case of collusion on the part of the minister with the importer that cancels the violation of his product and makes it compliant. The decision cancels an important examination in the previous specification that guarantees the safety of society, as car brake fluid in which the rate of evaporation loss is higher than the limit allowed in the previous specification is considered high risk because it exposes the safety of society to danger, and recently there have been many traffic accidents due to defects in car brakes. .
With the stroke of a pen, the shipment was identical
Six days after the disinfectant’s decision to change the standard specification was issued, a new report was issued with the results of examining the shipment of “Syntec” car brake fluid, which confirmed its conformity with the requirements of the approved standard specification for the product.
The report also confirmed that it cancels and replaces the previous report issued on March 13, 2023 regarding the Authority’s public debts, which is the last report that does not match the shipment.
Corresponding report
The latest report does not match
Irregular shipments of the same type
“Yamnat” also obtained documents revealing an examination of other shipments of “Syntec” car brake oils from the same importer, all of which did not conform to the Yemeni specifications, and the procedure was not to dispose of the shipment or take it to the market, which indicates that the decision of Minister Al-Mutahhar was based on the release. A number of shipments that did not comply with the Yemeni specifications were reported, or rather, inferior products were released that harm the safety of society and expose it to risks when used in cars and various means of transportation.
Disinfectant opens the door to flooding the market with inferior products
“Yamnat” obtained inspection reports for car brake oils from other importers, all of which conform to the Yemeni standard, from other importers such as Al-Hajjaji, Al-Absi and Shawlaq, which means that the door has been opened by Minister Al-Mutahhar to flood the market with inferior and adulterated products that harm society at the expense of conforming products, which means the existence of a policy. Systematic by Minister Al-Mutahhar to flood the markets with counterfeit products with the aim of attacking brands that are highly reliable and demand specifications, thus leading to attacking the owners of those brands, among the old merchants, and replacing them with a class of parasitic merchants. All of this contradicts the recommendations of the House of Representatives, which obligated the government, represented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, to clearly put an end to counterfeit goods in the markets.
Reports of matching brake fluids from other importers