Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) in Oktyabrsky and Kirovsky districts of Yekaterinburg carried out scheduled and unscheduled inspections of ten enterprises dealing in maintenance and repair of vehicles in the eight months of 2011, the agency’s press service reports.

The local customers complained about the following car mechanics: Firma ERES, UzDaewoo Service, Avtoland Shvetziya, Gamma, Nezavisimost Yekaterinburg F, STO Vostok, and some others.

The legal entities and the executives behind the offenses had to face administrative liability and pay a total of 58,500 RUR worth of fines. The enterprises’ heads were ordered to stop violating the consumers’ rights.