The Public Prosecution ordered the detention of the Director General of the National Center for Standardization and Metrologyin remand pending investigation on charges of failing to fulfill the duty of maintaining the community safety component since assuming the mandate of the job and causing harm to the public interest.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that the Public Prosecution Office examined the reasons for the lack of oversight, which aims to maintain the community’s health and safety component from food contamination. He discovered leading reasons, including the decline in the effectiveness of administrative measures aimed at ensuring the quality and safety of foodstuffs before allowing them to be brought into the country as a result of the non-calibration of the materials analysis laboratory equipment.
He added that after the interrogation of the Director General of the Center, he did not come up with a reason for his responsibility for not fulfilling the duty of maintaining the community safety component since he took over the job; Which caused harm to the public interest, and the investigator decided to order him to be remanded in custody pending the case.