As many as 561 cases of hotel accommodation overpricing had been registered across the country in cities selected to host matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia’s Federal Agency for Consumer Rights Protection (Rospotrebnadzor) reported.
"A total of 561 cases of hotel accommodation overpricing have been exposed (22 such cases during the week). As many as 113 hotels have been found to have no classification certificates," Rospotrebnadzor said in a press statement.
The agency said it had inspected more than 12,000 hotels to find some 1,500 administrative violations. Fines to a total sum of six million rubles ($96,060) have been imposed and 187 warnings have been issued, TASS reported.
The matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the 11 mentioned above cities across Russia.
