Economic surveillance teams are booking 1,900 kilograms of Kairouan-backed sugar

Economic surveillance teams in coordination with municipal police officers, on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, seized about 1,900 kilograms of subsidized sugar within the city of Kairouan.

This booked shipment was controlled by two industrial units active in the candy and juice industry, where it turned out that the owners of the two enterprises exploited these subsidized materials and converted them into a primary material for commercial and productive activity.

The interests concerned intend to take the necessary measures to re-pump fully recovered quantities into authorised legal and commercial distribution channels, to ensure supply stability in markets and to ensure direct access of the material to citizens.

The planned management measures include following a path of displaying the quantities reserved for sale under the supervision of supervisory structures, continuously verifying that consumers benefit from them and avoiding any new attempts to leak the subsidised material outside its legal supply framework.

This process is part of the interventions of the Kairouan Economic Monitoring Service and Municipal Police to address the phenomenon of shifting basic consumer goods from their intended destination to households, and enforcing compliance by craft and industrial units with regulated laws for supplying raw materials.