Expired Food Scandal: Public Prosecution Detains 29 in Major Fraud Case

TDT | Manama

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The Attorney General, Counselor Wael Rashid Bo’lay, Assistant to the Attorney General, has confirmed that the Public Prosecution is conducting an extensive investigation into a serious case involving the possession and distribution of expired food products that were tampered with and illegally marketed.

The case involves a food and beverage company whose owners, officials, and employees—29 individuals in total—have been detained following allegations that expiry dates were deliberately altered to mislead consumers. The Public Prosecution has ordered the preservation of the company’s main warehouse and all affiliated food storage locations as investigations continue.

The incident was uncovered after a worker, newly arrived in Bahrain and employed at one of the company’s warehouses, filed a report at a police station in the Northern Governorate. He claimed he had been forced to change expiry dates on expired goods by removing the original labels and replacing them with fake dates that falsely extended the products' validity. He documented these actions with video evidence before refusing to continue the illegal activity