an intensification of controls for the repression of fraud on food prices

The context of the conflict in Ukraine mayalone explain the rise in prices? The question arises after Bruno Le Maire has declared, in the morning of Monday July 4, its intention to intensify the controls of the repression of the frauds. “Investigations, sector by sector, so as not to let the profiteers of the crisis pass, according to the minister. So, 1,200 controls have already been carried out since the beginning of the year in the food sector. For the moment, nothing abnormal, tells us the ministry, but the investigations are going to multiplyr”, reports journalist Sophie Lansonpresent on the set of 19/20, Monday July 4.

Some prices are indeed questionable. “In any case, this is what Michel-Edouard Leclerc denounces. He says that half of the price increases requested by manufacturers from large retailers would be suspect. (…) It even targets two brands by name: Nestlé and Mars would have demanded + 15% for their chocolate confectionery. Totally unjustified increases, according to the big boss, because cocoa is not produced in Ukraine“, concludes the journalist.

The two groups mentioned explained to France Télévisions that all production costs were increasing: transport, energy, or even milk or sugar.