The anti-caesarean posters in Bucharest will also be removed from the last panels. The foundation behind them did not appear at the ANPC inspection, which accuses of obstructing checks and unfair commercial practice
The founders of Corporate Transparency, the foundation that launched the anti-caesarean billboards, did not show up at the meeting with representatives of the National Authority for Consumer Protection, although they announced that they would attend, the head of the ANPC, Csaba Lajos Bekesi, told Snoop.
ANPC had invited them on Wednesday, at 1:00 p.m., to present the scientific documents that were the basis of the messages on the panels, as well as the funding sources of the campaign.
“They didn't show up, they sent an article by e-mail that is not a study, it's just an article. So our colleagues are in the process of drawing up the statement of findings and control, including for preventing the control, but also for unfair commercial practice, settings where we, the ANPC, have powers,” said the head of Consumer Protection.
Billboard operators removed the unmarked and illegal anti-caesarean campaign on Monday, April 20.
The decision, announced by the mayor of the capital, Ciprian Ciucu, was taken six days after Snoop revealed that behind the campaign is the Corporate Transparency Foundation, an NGO that has also promoted conspiracy theories through pantomaging.
The posters will also be removed from the retroceded area of the IOR
Only in Sector 3 did the panels with anti-Caesarean messages remain, located in the retroceded area of the IOR park, an area Snoop wrote about in another investigation.
The head of ANPC says that the authority will also intervene in this case.
“Based on this unfair commercial practice, they will also receive an order to stop this advertising campaign. To give up all existing billboards regardless of display,” Csaba Lajos Bekesi said.
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