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Vision TV & Webshop must pay 250,000 crowns in fees after deceptive marketing of dietary supplements on Facebook. The company is owned by the Visjon Norge television channel.
Television Pastor Jan Hanvold of Vision Norway does not fully agree that the Market Council has decided that Vision TV & Webshop should pay a misleading marketing fee of 250,000 crowns. Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB
It was in March of this year that the company commercialized the dietary supplement, among other things by posting an advertisement on the Facebook page of the Christian television channel Visjon Norge. The ad led to the online store of the channel where the product is sold.
In April, the company was notified that it could be fined for a commercialization that, according to the Consumer Agency, “exploits the population’s fear of being infected by the coronavirus.”
The company did not accept this and therefore the decision was appealed to the Market Council, which has now unanimously decided not to uphold the appeal, writes Vårt Land.
– The Market Council has rejected the complaint from Vision TV & Webshop. This means that the company must pay the NOK 250,000 infringement fee that the Norwegian Consumer Agency has imposed on them, says Frode Elton Haug, Legal Director of the Norwegian Consumer Agency.
The chairman of the board, Jan Hanvold, still believes that the rape rate has been “completely disproportionate”, and does not skimp on dust in his comment.
– We believe that the violation was not speculative and that we should have received a warning instead of a violation fee. This shows how corrupt the Norwegian Consumer Agency is. They do exactly what is convenient for them, which is detrimental to the rule of law, he tells the newspaper.
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